Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ant (scientific name: Camponotus atriceps) infected with fungus (scientific name: Ophiocordyceps unilateralis sensu lato). The ...

Chinese Academy of Sciences researchers report that fossilized entomopathogenic fungi from mid-Cretaceous amber reveal some of the oldest direct evidence of parasitic relationships between fungi and ...

A parasitic fungus that turns ants into puppets has quietly become one of the most influential organisms in modern pop culture, inspiring a video game, an HBO series, and a wave of fascinated dread ...

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Researchers dissected the jaws of ants infected with the Ophiocordyceps fungus to determine how the fungus hijacks the ants' behavior. Christopher Intagliata reports. It's straight out of a horror ...

A team led by researchers at the National Institute for Amazonian Research (INPA), in Manaus, has found evidence that the "zombie-ant" fungus (genus Ophiocordyceps), known worldwide for controlling ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An incredibly powerful type of fungal parasite that is known to turn ants into actual zombies is actually even more devious than ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock A study in Brazil's Amazon rainforest found the so-called zombie-ant fungus in mosses, even in samples taken ...

When you think of zombies, perhaps George A. Romero's film "Night of the Living Dead" or the hit TV show "The Walking Dead" come to mind. But now there's a new category for mindless eating machines ...

A fungus can turn an infected ant into what scientists describe as a real-life ‘zombie ’, taking over its behaviour in a way that helps the parasite reproduce. The phenomenon is linked to ...

Here's one that I didn't touch on in DISCOVER's creepy gallery of zombie animals controlled by mind-altering parasites: A parasitic fungus called Ophiocordyceps unilateralis that infects a plain old ...