It's one of nature's most disturbing horror stories: a fungus takes control of a living ant and uses it to spread its spores through the colony. But now there's a strange new wrinkle to the story, as ...

In the dense forests of South America and Southeast Asia, a parasite operates with chilling precision. Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, often called the zombie-ant fungus, infects ants, invades their ...

New study that uses 3D visualization and deep learning shows that "zombie ant fungus" controls the insect's muscles, not the brain. Journalist Bonnie Burton writes about movies, TV shows, comics, ...

Scientists have uncovered intriguing new details about a bizarre "zombie fungus" that manipulates the behavior of the carpenter ants it infects—with gruesome results. When the fungus—known as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An incredibly powerful type of fungal parasite that is known to turn ants into actual zombies is actually even more devious than ...

It's like "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," but with ants. It hasn’t been clear exactly how the fungus exerts this seeming mind control over the ant, but scientists figured that it made its way ...

The consequences of climate change are numerous, but viewers of HBO's The Last of Us might have been surprised to learn that it could lead to a post-apocalyptic world taken over by zombies that were ...

There's a different species of Cordyceps fungus for each type of host. This marauder ant (Polyrhachis armata) succumbed to the fungus just as the carpenter ants in the Penn State study did. Using ...

Scientists believe an invasive ant species that spews acid from its abdomen has finally met its match after discovering that a naturally occurring fungus kills off a significant number of the ant ...