It may not be real enough to give you sleepless nights and ignite apocalypse contingencies, but a fungus controlling the mind of its host like a zombie to ... such as plant stems, walls, or ...

Around sunset, there’s a sudden a burst of movement as the fly climbs—or “summits”—to an elevated location, like the top of a ...

Those aren't some strange arrangement of antennae on a beetle but the fruiting bodies of a "zombie fungus" that has taken ... was Highly Commended in the Plants and Fungi category.

This fruiting body of the fungus showers spores on everything around it - dooming others to the same zombie fate. It sounds like a work of fiction. But the kingdom of fungi - distinct from plants ...