The idea of zombies has fascinated humans for centuries. Real-life parasites have been taking over the minds of insects for eons.

Learn how some fungi turn insects into zombies, others infect humans, and how they can't be killed with drugs.

Dr Matt Kasson, Associate Professor of Mycology at West Virginia University and expert on zombie fungi, told MailOnline: 'Most fungi that infect humans aside from yeasts don’t really produce ...

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

Researchers discovered that when Covid-19 infects a human cell ... the newly infected cell sprouts multipronged tentacles studded with viral particles. These sick zombie cells appear to be ...

If you’re reading this, Hollywood, there’s a fun twist on the zombie trope here: imagine a world where infected humans start building houses for the zombies. This parasite functions like a ...

The Cordyceps work by engulfing humans and transforming them into unrecognizable monsters. The Cordyceps zombies grow in stages. Those that have most recently been infected look comparatively ...

Once zombies get close enough to human devices, the humans are infected and become zombies themselves. It’s a tidy and lightweight way to implement the gameplay, and requires no infrastructure ...

The Last of Us has a wide variety of different zombie and infected types ... and move like humans. Stalkers are those Infected who have been infected anywhere between two weeks and a year.

In Season 1 of the TV series, which was adapted from a 2013 video game with the same name, the cordyceps zombies used tentacles to infect humans. But Season 2 reveals that the zombies have also ...