The world can be a scary place. Global pandemics, catastrophic climate change. But humans have made it this far, so why bat an eye at a deadly zombie fungus? HBO’s highly anticipated TV adaptation of ...

A zombie cicada fungus, _Massospora cicadina_, has consumed the rear end of this periodical cicada, replacing it with a 'plug' of chalky spores. Matt Kasson, CC BY-ND Is a zombie apocalypse caused by ...

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

It's based on a real fungus, but could this fictional plot happen in real life? Viewers everywhere were captivated by the recent HBO original The Last of Us, a fictional TV series based on a ...

(CNN) — You have probably seen leaf-cutter ants carrying bits of plants, maybe in a nature documentary, at a science museum or in the “Circle of Life” song at the beginning of the 1994 Disney animated ...

In this episode of Tiny Show and Tell Us, we consider if bacteriophages could become our biggest allies in the fight against antibiotic resistance. Then we cover the historical role of "night soil men ...

In warm regions of the Americas, leafcutter ants farm the fungus that they eat, gathering bits of greenery to feed it. An entire ocean away, one species of ant in Africa uses a very similar fungus ...

Explore how leafcutter ants depend on nitrogen-fixing bacteria for thriving fungus gardens, making them a super-organism in the ecosystem. Hardly a natural history documentary goes by without some ...

Species of ants that practice a complex form of fungi agriculture developed their knack for farming about 50 million years ago and have employed several different, successful strategies to culture ...

Those ants don’t eat the leaves — instead they bring them back to their nests to feed a garden of fungi, which produce food for the ants. Researchers have now used DNA analysis to uncover just how ...