Around the world, a parasitic fungus transforms ants into "zombies." The fungus is like something out of a horror movie: The organism hijacks the body and brain of its ant host, mind-controlling it ...

One kind of tiny ant can serve as a monumental example for how to keep members of a community safe from pathogens. A new ...

The chilling scenario is drawn straight from a horror movie. But in this case, fact is scarier than fiction.

For centuries we have believed that humans were unique in the ability to farm and cultivate food. However, it turns out that ...

It turns out ants had been cultivating fungi for millions of years before humans began farming. A new surprising study has discovered that ants began farming fungi around 66 million years ago, shortly ...

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 ...

The Ophiocordyceps unilateralis fungus has just one goal: self-propagation and dispersal. To do so, the parasitic fungus hijacks ants ’ bodies, essentially turning them into zombies.

When an at least six-mile-wide asteroid struck Earth 66 million years ago, life on our planet suffered one of the worst mass extinctions of all time. The cataclysm not only wiped out almost all the ...

'Weed early and often' is the key to a productive garden. Interestingly, certain species of ants are also avid gardeners, a practice they've refined over 50 million years. They too weed their ...

One of the interesting things here is that ants have no capacity to think “uh, oh… what do we do now? Oh. How about fungus?” So they must have already had some adaptation(s) to finding/consuming ...

‘Weed early and often’ is the key to a productive garden. Interestingly, certain species of ants are also avid gardeners, a practice they’ve refined over 50 million years. They too weed their ...