Carolyn Elya, a molecular biologist at Harvard, along with her coworkers, demonstrated that the fungus Entomophthora muscae ...

and utterly beautiful at the same time. Those aren't some strange arrangement of antennae on a beetle but the fruiting bodies of a "zombie fungus" that has taken control of the insect. Its ...

Keep reading to find out who is at risk of being infected by the Gibellula fungus and what everyone should know about the ...

It may not be real enough to give you sleepless nights and ignite apocalypse contingencies, but a fungus controlling the mind of its host like a zombie to spread is very real. The difference is ...

Mushrooms, for instance, are the spore-producing fruiting element of fungi ... bodies to complete its life cycle. Ants infected by the “zombie-ant fungus” will climb up a leaf and clamp ...