The zombie-producing fungus in “The Last of Us” is really ... to jump to humans — that’s definitely sci-fi,” Will told National Geographic. “But this idea that temperature plays ...

The world’s most expensive fungus Roughly sixty miles away in the city of Yushu, it’s barely 8 a.m. in the cordyceps market, but already it has the frenetic energy of a stock market trading ...

“If the fungus really wanted to infect mammals it would require millions of years of genetic changes,” parasitic fungi expert João Araújo tells National Geographic. According to the national ...

"If the fungus really wanted to infect mammals it would require millions of years of genetic changes," Araujo told National Geographic ... still not turned into a zombie.

But National Geographic reassures us that people ... an expert on parasitic fungi at the New York Botanical Garden]. Each zombie-creating fungus species evolved to match a specific insect, so ...

TL;DR: A new fungus, G. attenboroughii, discovered in Northern Ireland, infects spiders, causing zombie-like effects similar to the zombie-ant fungus. It alters spider behavior to spread spores ...

A wildlife researcher in the Peruvian Amazon has discovered a tarantula infected by the "zombie fungus" Cordyceps, a rare and eerie find."It took over his nervous system and forced him to come to ...

“This is a sexually transmitted zombie disease.” The fungal parasite known as Massospora ... the university reported. National Geographic's Matt Kasson referred to infected cicadas as ...

National Geographic's 2024 "Pictures of the ... Many of them may become infected with the Massospora fungus that makes them zombie-like, which "modifies their sexual behavior to maximize fungal ...

If you’re traveling to any of the Midwestern or Southeastern states this spring, you might encounter zombies — zombie ... fungal spore dissemination," according to an article in the National ...