Instantly, they know they are near a person infected with the plague that has killed their world: a fungus that takes over the brain of its human hosts, turning them into shambling monsters. This ...

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 ...

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

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 series offers a different take on a zombie outbreak. Here's what you need to know about the Cordyceps fungus ...

The trailer for the hit HBO series appears to show the “zombie fungus” cordyceps infecting humans ... in real life — evolved into a harmful fungus thanks to a warming climate. In a recent Nature paper ...

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 ...

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.