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 ...

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

The author of this story is the fourth grade first place winner of the 22nd annual Fraser Creative Writing Contest, put on by ...

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

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

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 ...