"Zombie spiders" have now joined tarantulas in the UK, according to researchers. Sightings have been made of newly discovered ...

Instantly, they know they are near a person infected with the plague that has killed their world: a fungus that takes over ...

Mindy Weisberger’s book, Rise of the Zombie Bugs, explores the sophisticated—and macabre—relationships between zombifying ...

Sir David Attenborough thereby coined this disease struck creature as the Gibellula attenboroughii, a disease where the ...

Deep in the jungle, a sinister fungus turns insects into mindless puppets hijacking their bodies, steering their movements, and eventually erupting from their corpses to spread its spores. It’s ...

Science writer Mindy Weisberger speaks to Live Science about the parasites that turn their hosts — whether ant, beetle or ...

The Last of Us Season 2 is now streaming, so find out about all the infected zombie types and their mutation stages in the ...

University of Western Australia myrmecologist Dr François Brassard found the ants, which had been parasitised, possessed and then consumed by a fungus, while on an expedition as part of the Bush ...

Kronstad and his colleagues, in a recent review published in Nature, warned that this evolution could lead to more human ...