In "The Last of Us," cordyceps — a real fungus that infects insects — evolves into a harmful pathogen for humans due to a ...

But Season 2 reveals that the zombies have also evolved into spreading the fungi through airborne spores. "That's more realistic about the way humans do acquire fungal ... fungi — those that damage or ...

Science writer Mindy Weisberger speaks to Live Science about the parasites that turn their hosts — whether ant, beetle or ...

Garland’s latest movie, Warfare, hit theaters with an unflinching look at what it’s like to be in a modern war. To celebrate ...

A brain-eating pathogen continues to wreak havoc in the second series of The Last of Us – which is so far-fetched, right?

Even if they could survive inside our bodies, these fungi would struggle to turn humans into zombies. Dr de Bekker, a zombie fungus expert from Utrecht University, told MailOnline: 'We have ...

Roll credits. For a series based on a video game in which a Cordyceps epidemic turns humans into fungal zombies, that final beat — which, in television, typically sets up the season to come ...

Mindy Weisberger’s book, Rise of the Zombie Bugs, explores the sophisticated—and macabre—relationships between zombifying ...