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 ...

The deadly Ophiocordyceps unilateralis spreads by sending toxic spores blooming from the dead ant’s head. Ant (scientific name: Camponotus atriceps) infected with fungus (scientific name: ...

The cordyceps species in "The Last of Us," Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, is real and does exactly what the show purports —just not in humans, according to medical experts. Thanks to a relatively high ...

A DEADLY fungus that turns ants into zombies actually kills them by taking over their jaw muscles and locking them into a death grip, according to new research. The Ophiocordyceps unilateralis fungi ...

If you’ve been following HBO’s breakout hit The Last of Us—a story of people navigating a post-apocalyptic world where the cordyceps brain infection (CBI) has turned most of mankind into zombies—then ...

Researchers in Brazil, the UK and the US have discovered four new Brazilian species in the genus Ophiocordyceps unilateralis (O. unilateralis), a fungal pathogen specific to ants of the Camponotini ...