In the video game The Last of Us and its spin-off HBO series, humans fight to survive against cordyceps, a parasitic fungus ...

The Last Of Us is set to undergo a major shake-up ahead of its upcoming third season, as co-creator Neil Druckmann has ...

The Last of Us zombie fungus hijacked minds even as early as dinosaur era, scientists find - Fungal fossils trapped in amber ...

Parasitic fungi have been with us since at least the Cretaceous period zombifying insects according to a new study of fossils ...

The original game, The Last of Us (2013), follows Joel and Ellie on a perilous road journey across a devastated America, with ...

A glob of 99 million-year-old amber has preserved an ancient fly in horror show fashion: with the mushroom-like fruiting body ...

The Last of Us has been a major hit for HBO since its premiere in 2023, but the series is facing a creative change behind-the ...

The zombie-creating fungus in The Last of Us is real, but there are many other fungi to fear. Of the 5 million fungal species in the world, a few hundred are dangerous to people.

Zombie-ant fungi have gained widespread recognition as the inspiration behind the post-apocalyptic video game and TV series The Last of Us. Professor Edmund Jarzembowski, a scientist at the Natural ...

The popular video game and television franchise "The Last of Us" features a post-apocalyptic world where humans are infected by Cordyceps – a fungus that infects the brain and body, turning its hosts ...

The fossil fungi are from the same family as Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, also known as the zombie-ant fungus, which has gained widespread recognition as the inspiration behind the popular ...

Two Chinese researchers were charged with smuggling a biological pathogen that they planned to study at a University of ...