In tropical forests, some carpenter ants leave the safety of their colony and climb into a narrow zone above the ground. They ...

DNA analysis revealed the same fungus in both parasitized insects and surrounding mosses, according to a paper published in ...

What if an insect could remain alive while slowly losing control of its own body? Instead of being killed by a predator, ...

Learn how the fungus that turns ants into zombies also overruns mosses, revealing the bizarre way that it manipulates the ...

A team led by researchers at the National Institute for Amazonian Research (INPA), in Manaus, has found evidence that the ...

The so-called zombie-ant fungus has long fascinated scientists because of the way it takes control of infected ants, forcing ...

Scientists working in the Adolpho Ducke Forest Reserve in Manaus have made a discovery that’s changing our understanding of the life cycle of these zombie fungi. Once thought to be highly specific in ...

Brazilian biologists working in the Amazon noticed that Ophiocordyceps -infected ants seemed to prefer ending their doomed ascent in patches of moss, so they took a peek inside the plants. Analyzing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A zombie cicada fungus, _Massospora cicadina_, has consumed the rear end of this periodical cicada, replacing it with a 'plug' of ...

Chinese Academy of Sciences researchers report that fossilized entomopathogenic fungi from mid-Cretaceous amber reveal some of the oldest direct evidence of parasitic relationships between fungi and ...

Adult ants that have been infected with deadly pathogens often leave the colony to die so as not to infect others. But, “like infected cells in tissue, [young ants] are largely immobile and lack this ...

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