When Entomophaga grylli infects locusts or grasshoppers, they climb to the tops of plants before their death. The zombie-ant ...

London: Some of the most intriguing science fiction springs from eerie, real-life phenomena. Case in point, the mutant parasite in the video game series “The Last of Us,” CNN said on Monday.Creators ...

An ant and fly from the Cretaceous period offer insights into the history of Ophiocordyceps, the fungal parasite made popular ...

Long before humans walked the Earth, while dinosaurs were still roaming the land, a parasitic fungus hijacked the mind of a ...

Some of the most intriguing science fiction springs from eerie, real-life phenomena. Case in point, the mutant parasite in the video game series “The Last of Us.” ...

Beneath Oregon’s Malheur National Forest lies an organism of extraordinary size, stretching over thousands of acres and ...

Chinese Academy of Sciences researchers report that fossilized entomopathogenic fungi from mid-Cretaceous amber reveal some ...

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

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

Fungi Perfecti now specifies when its products are made of mushroom mycelium, though the designs are still adorned with mushroom fruiting bodies. It's unclear whether consumers always know which ...

Fungi Perfecti now specifies when its products are made of mushroom mycelium, though the designs are still adorned with mushroom fruiting bodies. It’s unclear whether consumers always know which ...

Mushrooms consist of a cap and stem, often seen sprouting up from dead logs or near trees. This cap and stem—what we call a mushroom—is technically known as the fruiting body or fruit body ...