A new HBO hit show, called The Last of Us, is gaining popularity and possibly inspiring a fear of fungi. In the show, a species of fungus infects humans and turns them into living zombies who then ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A zombie cicada fungus, _Massospora cicadina_, has consumed the rear end of this periodical cicada, replacing it with a 'plug' of ...

Imagine you’re walking through an old, abandoned building and all of a sudden you hear the terrifying clicking sound that you know comes from zombies. Civilization has all but been destroyed thanks to ...

Zombies are real – not in the walking dead sense, but there are parasites that can hack the brains of living creatures and force them to do things against their will, with the goal of spreading the ...

In the premiere of HBO's big budget adaption of the 2013 video game "The Last of Us," an infection caused by a parasitic fungus has turned most humans into ravenous, mind-controlled zombies, ending ...

Against its will, it crawled up the stalk, marching toward its final destination. And then, from its skull burst forth the invader from within, releasing a bevy of its alien brood. This horror may ...

If you're even a casual science fan you've likely heard of the cordyceps fungi group before. The genus includes hundreds of known species, but the ones that get the most attention are those that ...