If you're like me, you've had a long withstanding date with the couch on Sunday nights to watch HBO's breakout show The Last of Us. The show is about how the human population fights to survive a ...

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.

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

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 ...

SAN DIEGO — On the heels of a real pandemic, the new HBO drama "The Last of Us" is turning heads in its display of a post-apocalyptic America after a fungal infection spreads rampantly amongst humans.

In one episode, a swarm of formerly human mutants emerge from a suburban crater with faces that seem to have burst outward into the kind of mushroomy blossoms you’d find under a log in the forest.

If you’ve been following HBO’s breakout hit The Last of Us—a story of people navigating a post-apocalyptic world where the cordyceps brain infection (CBI) has turned most of mankind into zombies—then ...

In this take on the apocalypse, we see a post-pandemic world that’s been taken over by zombies. But these are not the typical zombies we’re used to seeing in movies and TV shows like “The Walking Dead ...

Emily Kavanagh is a Colorado based Feature Writer for Collider. She graduated from Colorado Mesa University with a degree in English Writing. Though she's been with Collider for almost two years she's ...