Student journalist Taryn Pollock explains what the ophiocordyceps unilateralis fungus is and why it is commonly called the ...

The Tibetan Plateau in the Himalayas is home to a fungus (Ophiocordyceps sinensis) that turns caterpillars into zombies. It’s part of the same Cordyceps fungal group that inspired the video game ...

A parasitic fungus illness known as Cordyceps brain infection (abbreviated CBI) causes an epidemic that transforms human ...

There are currently 100 known Ophiocordyceps species that have the ... said it's "very unlikely" that the fungus would be able to infect humans. The Cordyceps are "not prepared to invade ...

Scientists say the behaviour of the fungus mirrors that of ants infected by fungi of the genus Ophiocordyceps, previously reported from the Atlantic rainforest of Brazil. The story of the "zombie ...

It’s the underground-dwelling larva of one of several species of the ghost moth that has been infected by spores from a parasitic fungus called Ophiocordyceps sinensis. The fungus devours the ...

Cordyceps, or Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, is indeed a real fungus that parasitizes the brains of insects like ants or spiders. Fortunately for humankind, while mind-controlling fungal infections make ...