They crawl, they control, and they kill—without a sound. These real-life parasites turn their hosts into pawns in a ...

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

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

The new season of HBO's popular series 'The Last of Us' could offer a glimpse into the future, as researchers have recently discovered that the Cordyceps fungus featured in the show is evolving in ...

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 ...

The outbreak that causes the entire world to collapse in The Last of Us comes from a mutated strain of the Cordyceps fungus, and our non-zombie zombies ... rather than turn into Bloaters, people ...

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

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 ...

These walking dead never actually died, nor were they ever reborn; instead, a terrifying fungus crawled through their insides and took over control of their still-living bodies. Thus, the proper term ...