A fly is going about its day, buzzing here, buzzing there—but then, it starts behaving weirdly. Its movements become sluggish; its abdomen swells. Its body sprouts white fuzz. Around sunset, there’s a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. a fly with a dark brown club-like shape protruding from its head, trapped in greenish-yellow amber. Scientists have caught ancient ...

Fungi bursts from the head of a fly fossilized in 99-million-year-old amber. © Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, NIGPAS In ...

As you can probably tell, at least one person on this blog's masthead likes ants. So we've always been bummed that we haven't had the opportunity to tell you about zombie ants, but today we are glad ...

A piece of 99 million-year-old amber has revealed a shocking sight. It’s a fly with a zombie fungus growing from its head. Another fossil in the same amber shows a young ant infected by a similar ...

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Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

This year, two "broods" of cicadas are emerging at the same time – and with them, reports of a mysterious fungus that is causing cicadas to become "zombies" who display abnormal sexual behaviors. But ...

A fungus that turns spiders into zombies sounds like something straight out of a horror movie. Both arachnophobes and people with a healthy fear of spiders shudder at the idea that some spiders lose ...

The mind-controlling “zombie” fungus, which served as the inspiration for the video game and post-apocalyptic TV show The Last of Us, emerged about 133 million years ago when dinosaurs roamed Earth, a ...