Parasites are turning their victims into zombies, but don't worry — those victims aren't humans. Yet! Earlier this year, countless flies were found dead on plants and street signs around town. “We ...

A 99-million-year-old fly fossil has found an unlikely second life online. Trapped in amber with a fungus jutting from its ...

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What could be the most brutal way for an insect to die? Being struck out of the air by a predator? Snatched in a split second ...

Chinese Academy of Sciences researchers report that fossilized entomopathogenic fungi from mid-Cretaceous amber reveal some of the oldest direct evidence of parasitic relationships between fungi and ...

A fly is going about its day, buzzing here, buzzing there—but then, it starts behaving weirdly. Its movements become sluggish; its abdomen swells. Its body sprouts white fuzz. Around sunset, there’s a ...

With the emergence of cicada broods this summer, scientists have begun collecting specimens of cicada infected with a mysterious parasitic fungus that takes over the insects and turns them into ...

Parasites rarely settle for a simple relationship with their hosts. In fact, some of the most fascinating creatures in this category actively change how their victims behave. Among them are horsehair ...

It’s zombie season! At least if you’re watching the new season of the fungal thriller “The Last of Us,” airing right now on Max, which chronicles what happens after a fungus turns most of humanity ...

When Entomophaga grylli infects locusts or grasshoppers, they climb to the tops of plants before their death. The zombie-ant fungus Ophiocordyceps unilateralis infects ants and controls their ...