'Himalayan Viagra': the world's most coveted fungus
On the hit zombie TV show "The Last of Us", cordyceps fungus mostly turns people into "superstrong killing machines", said ...
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The Strange ‘Zombie Fungus’ That Controls Its Host—And Eats It Alive
If you found the famous HBO series The Last of Us to be a closer-to-reality depiction ... nights and ignite apocalypse contingencies, but a fungus controlling the mind of its host like a zombie ...
Behold the fungus that turns spiders into zombies and marches them to their deaths
A newly discovered species of fungus takes control of cave-dwelling spiders in Ireland and Northern Ireland, similar to the ...
The Sex Mushroom Hunters of Nepal
Cordyceps fungi sell in Beijing for $136,000 a pound and have made their way into Whole Foods. They underpin entire ...
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Fungus-infected "zombie spiders" found in Irish caves
It's the stuff of nightmares - or even the hit TV show and video game The Last of Us: a novel fungus that turns its hosts into "zombies". Thankfully, so far, it's only been found in spiders located in ...
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The Last of Us style 'zombie-fungus' has now been confirmed in another species
TL;DR: A new fungus ... So unless people are walking around with radioactive spider DNA, there's no risk of a human infection like in The Last of Us. At worst, you'll just rest a little uneasy ...
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Mind-controlling fungus turns spiders into zombies at Irish castle ruins
Scientists have discovered a new fungus, Gibellula attenboroughii, that turns reclusive Irish cave spiders into zombies.