S ome snakes are well-known for injecting prey with venom from their fangs. What’s less well known is that they produce toxic ...

Mushrooms are a form of fungi that continue to be studied extensively to discover, sometimes the magic, and at other times the menace, they can unleash ...

There are a wide array of other ants besides carpenter ants, winter ants and fire ants – Massachusetts has plenty. Meet the ...

“WHO ARE YOU?” the caterpillar barks at Alice from atop the giant mushroom, and Alice, never quite having considered the ...

‘When it’s ready, the fungus pushes a fruiting body up through the dead ant’s head ... The fungus gets into the fly’s brain, forcing the fly to crawl upwards to the top of a branch.

Cordyceps - also known as the zombie-ant fungus - is real, but it immobilizes insects and other bugs and not humans. It also doesn’t control the brain, although you could be fooled. It ...

In ants, zombie fungi control their host's behaviour to help ... what the show gets completely wrong about fungal zombies is the idea that the brain would be destroyed by an infection.

“It’s kept certain parts of their brain alive, so they are smarter ... If you’re lucky, you might just spot a summited ant or fly bursting with fungal life. The PopSci team has tested ...

So fungus ant agriculture had mostly been investigated from the ant ... "I know that this is not what this actually smells like, but now my brain will forever associate the smell with this word ...

attenboroughii is releasing in the brain of the host ... pointing to the case of the zombie ant fungi. Scientists have documented the lethal parasite regulating the insect population, Araújo ...