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

Parasitic fungi have been with us since at least the Cretaceous period zombifying insects according to a new study of fossils ...

The popular video game and television franchise "The Last of Us" features a post-apocalyptic world where humans are infected by Cordyceps – a fungus that infects the brain and body, turning its hosts ...

Around 99 million years ago, some insects got trapped in tree sap that later fossilized to form what we call amber. Sounds ...