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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

In The Last of Us‘ universe, spores grow fungus in human brains until they eventually take over, creating a kind of zombie. The infection can also transmit via the saliva of those infected ...

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 ...