Tibetan Plateau, a rare fungus grows inside dead caterpillars. In traditional Chinese medicine, this parasitic fungus is ...

What if this parasitic fungus could do the same thing to us? That’s the premise of the new television show based on the video game The Last of Us in which, as a result of warming temperatures ...

And the cycle starts all over. Discovered more than 160 years ago, the fungus’s actions are as mind-boggling as they are macabre. Scientists have long wondered: How does the fungus manage to ...

Untangling the complex disease cycles of parasitic fungi is at the core of what mycologists do. Zombie storylines like most myco-fiction, even those based on real life behavior-modifying fungi ...

The toxic fungus could be on the rise due to climate change, a new research paper warns, which could put millions at risk.

An inside look at the extensive, weird and wonderful fungi collection at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and the ongoing projects ...

NANJING -- An international paleontological team led by Chinese scientists has discovered two new species of parasitic fungus, preserved in approximately 100-million-year-old Kachin amber from Myanmar ...

Among the species digitised by the Kew team is Gibellula attenboroughii - or David Attenborough's "zombie fungus" - named after first being spotted on an episode of BBC's Winterwatch in 2021, having ...