In "The Last of Us," cordyceps — a real fungus that infects insects — evolves into a harmful pathogen for humans due to a ...

HBO’s The Last of Us might be a dystopian thrill ride, but how real is its core concept that a fungus could hijack the human ...

In The Last of Us‘ universe, spores grow fungus in human brains until they eventually take over, creating a kind of zombie ... Cordyceps grows through your face, cracks it open, takes away ...

The Last of Us has a wide variety of different zombie and infected types ... This blinds them as the fungus grows out of their face. Their only method of detecting threats is through echolocation ...

Dr Charissa de Becker, an expert on zombie fungus from Utrecht University, says: 'When such spores land on an ant they can germinate and burrow themselves through the exoskeleton of the insect to ...

Here, they seek refuge from a zombifying fungal pandemic and the violence that ... fungi is at the core of what mycologists do. Zombie storylines like most myco-fiction, even those based on ...

That relative realism is why The Last of Us hits so hard, and the launch of the second season feels like a great time to explore some of the real-world zombie ... The Cordyceps fungus is not ...

The Last of Us is back on April 13 and this season is more realistic than ever. The trailer for the hit HBO series appears to show the “zombie fungus” cordyceps infecting humans by releasing air-borne ...

With the hit HBO series "The Last of Us" returning for Season 2 on April 13, fans captivated by the terrifying concept of a fungal pandemic that turns humans into zombies once again face the ...