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

Season 2 of HBO’s The Last of Us has gripped viewers once again. In it, a fungus turns humans into zombie-like creatures. But ...

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 ...

A brain-eating pathogen continues to wreak havoc in the second series of The Last of Us – which is so far-fetched, right?

Rise of the Zombie Bugs” explores how parasites create real-life zombies in the insect and invertebrate world.

Strange-looking ants being controlled by a fungus have been discovered on Jawoyn country in the Northern Territory during a Bush Blitz expedition. In the remote savanna of the Northern Territory, ...

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 ...

In "The Last of Us," cordyceps — a real fungus that infects insects — evolves into a harmful pathogen for humans due to a warming climate. In reality, "zombie-ant fungus" or Ophiocordyceps ...