The premise of zombie fungus can quickly turn into a horror story when reimagined as a sci-fi creature infecting humans, such as in the HBO series “The Last of Us,” said to have been inspired ...

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

Instantly, they know they are near a person infected with the plague that has killed their world: a fungus that takes over ...

The Last of Us Season 2 is now streaming, so find out about all the infected zombie types and their mutation stages in the ...

You probably thought that was all a bunch of make believe – mushrooms turning people into ... that the creatures were infected with a ‘zombie parasite’ – an entomopathogenic fungus which ...

Even if they could survive inside our bodies, these fungi would struggle to turn humans into zombies. Dr de Bekker, a zombie fungus expert from Utrecht University, told MailOnline: 'We have ...

The ability to turn insects into “zombies” served as inspiration for the video game’s creators. As for cordyceps’ affect on humans, the fungus has been used in herbal medicine, and Four ...

The Last of Us is a successful HBO series based on a popular video game and the show is set 20 years after a fungal disease ...

While cordyceps may turn people into flesh-eating, undead creatures on the show, it doesn’t cause any of those symptoms in real life. In fact, the fungus ... fun coffee and zombie moment.