De Fine Licht is keen for the zombie fly-fungus system to be taught in schools, to draw in younger science enthusiasts. He and Edwards recently published instructions on how to observe the zombify ...

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

After two long years, the highly anticipated second season of HBO’s The Last of Us is almost here. In the new season, five ...

While Ophiocordyceps is likely the best-known zombie fungus, it’s certainly not the only one ... Yet these reports had largely fallen into obscurity, and this fungus-fly pair would await rediscovery ...

The researchers found that climate change is contributing to the spread of harmful fungi, creating more favorable conditions for their growth.

Student journalist Taryn Pollock explains what the ophiocordyceps unilateralis fungus is and why it is commonly called the Zombie ant-virus.

The outbreak that causes the entire world to collapse in The Last of Us comes from a mutated strain of the Cordyceps fungus, and our non-zombie zombies come from this fungus and the infection it ...

After posting images of his find online, he was told the spiders had been infected with a ‘zombie parasite’ – the entomopathogenic fungus. Gareth Jenkins was working in a garden in Wanstead ...