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The HBO series "The Last of Us" premiered on Jan. 15, and was watched by 4.7 million viewers – one of the largest HBO debuts ever. Its storyline is a grisly one. A naturally occurring fungus known as ...

I have never really been interested in ghosts, mummies or zombies, not even at Halloween. But as October 31 approaches each year, I am reminded of a biological tale involving all three. It's the ...

Spiders living in the Amazon rainforest defend themselves from predators using an amazing variety of strategies. One newly discovered species has adapted to resemble a dead spider infected with a ...

This spider has developed a remarkable ability to mimic a parasitic fungus.

Yes, the fungus is among us. The video game-inspired hit zombie apocalypse show “The Last of Us” draws its inspiration from our own reality and ecology: The show’s fatal fungus exists throughout ...

A rare fungus that acts like the Cordyceps fungus which inspired The Last of Us was recently discovered in a rainforest in Scotland. In Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us, mankind is devastated by the ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The Last of Us, based on the bestselling video game of the same name, ...

In the video game and HBO show The Last of Us, humans struggle to survive after an infectious fungus turns ordinary people into zombies. Creators of the franchise didn’t look far for inspiration — the ...

Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage than loading CBC Lite story pages. When Alexander Bentley poked a mass covered in what appeared to be a deadly parasitic fungus during ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The poor jumping spider infected by the gibellula pulchra fungi.© Siburan Lai/Shutterstock.com The post ‘Last of Us’ Zombie Spider ...