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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 ...

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 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 ...

Joel and Ellie's dystopian journey in The Last of Us is filled with moments of joy, heartbreak, childlike humor, and a found family bond like never before.

Mindy Weisberger's new book details the crafty worms, fungi, and other parasites that have learned to mind-control their hosts.