The shear diversity of fungi in the world is estimated at 6.2 million species. That is 16 times the number of plant species ...

Kronstad and his colleagues, in a recent review published in Nature, warned that this evolution could lead to more human ...

A breakthrough study by Montana State University researchers unveils an organic substance that could someday be used as a building material.

There are thousands of species of fungus in the city, with names like American dyeball, dingy twiglet and devil’s dipstick.

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

Instantly, they know they are near a person infected with the plague that has killed their world: a fungus that takes over ...

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

Deep in the jungle, a sinister fungus turns insects into mindless puppets hijacking their bodies, steering their movements, and eventually erupting from their corpses to spread its spores. It’s ...

The Last of Us Season 2 is now streaming, so find out about all the infected zombie types and their mutation stages in the ...

The Last of Us finally returns to continue the story of the dystopian world infested with fungus zombies. A scrappy ...

The Last of Us presents a post-apocalyptic wasteland through which the leading characters, Ellie, played by Bella Ramsey, and Joel, played by Pedro Pascal, undertake their journey.

The first season of The Last of Us ended with Joel (Pedro Pascal) killing a hospital full of freedom fighters to prevent them from creating a cure to a zombie v ...