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 ...

FORT WORTH, Texas — It sounds like something out of science fiction: zombie fire ants. But it's all too real. Fire ants wander aimlessly away from the mound. Eventually their heads fall off, and they ...

The lancet liver fluke has a cunning — some might say horrifying — way of ensuring its survival. It turns ants into zombies. That’s how researchers who study this tiny parasitic flatworm often ...

They say reality is stranger than fiction. With Halloween just around the corner, we wanted to explore the creepier side of ...

FORT WORTH, Texas - Researchers in Texas are trying an unusual approach to combat fire ants - deploying parasitic flies that turn the pesky and economically costly insects into zombies whose heads ...

In this podcast, student journalist Taryn Pollock explains what the ophiocordyceps unilateralis fungus is and why it is commonly called the Zombie ant-virus. Taryn Pollock is a student at South High ...

In Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless, the naturalist and forager reveals connections between the human and fungal worlds. How did you come to have a passion for fungi? I’m a sucker for the underdog and ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Zombie Ants VR: Definitive Edition Zombie Ants VR is a short educational experience that takes the player through the life cycle of Ophiocordyceps, a fungus ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Zombie Ants VR Zombie Ants VR is a short (5-10 minute) experience that takes the player through the life cycle of Ophiocordyceps, a fungus that drives ...

Brand new to Screambox is What Is Buried Must Remain which arrives April 12, 2024. A modern ghost story with ancient roots, the timely Lebanese found footage hybrid finds young filmmakers confronted ...

FORT WORTH -- Some researchers in Texas are trying an unusual approach to combat fire ants -- parasitic flies that turn the pesky insects into zombies whose heads fall off. "It's a tool. They're not ...