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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fungus can be seen growing out of the head of a fly encased in 99 million-year-old amber. - Nanjing Institute of Geology and ...

A newly discovered species of spider has been found working pretty hard to convince prospective prey in the Amazon that it’s ...

Fungi can be seen growing out of the head of an insect encased in 99-million-year-old amber. - Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences/NIGPAS Editor’s note: A ...

Alexander Bentley, a herpetologist, is unfazed by cordyceps' presence in the Amazon. But after a finger poke of a fungi-covered mass showed movement, Bentley soon realized that one spider had a couple ...

A newly discovered species of spider in the Ecuadorean Amazon mimics a pathogen, known as a zombie fungus, to protect itself.

A glob of 99 million-year-old amber has preserved an ancient fly in horror show fashion: with the mushroom-like fruiting body of zombie fungus bursting forth from its head.The insect, along with a ...

(CNN) — 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.” Creators of the franchise, ...

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