turns snails into zombies by controlling their eye stalks. The infected stalks resemble caterpillars, attracting birds that eat the snails. The parasite then reproduces inside the bird ...

The white stuff that engulfs these flies is a fungus called Entomophthora muscae—Entomophthora translates to “destroyer of insects ... flies and turns them into “zombies” that ...

An incredibly powerful type of fungal parasite that is known to turn ants into actual zombies is actually even ... the fungus alters the brain of the bug in some way, forcing the behavior, but ...

But the kingdom of fungi - distinct from plants and animals - ranges from edible mushrooms to nightmare-fuel parasites ... Fungi might not turn us all into zombies, but they can cause far more ...