One of the most famous examples is the zombie ant fungus, Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, which is part of a larger group known ...

Some fungi do threaten human health. Examples include Aspergillus fumigatus and Cryptococcus neoformans, both of which can invade people’s lungs and cause serious pneumonia-like symptoms. Cryptococcus ...

Those ants don’t eat the leaves — instead they bring them back to their nests to feed a garden of fungi, which produce food for the ants. Researchers have now used DNA analysis to uncover just ...

Refers to the latest 2 years of omaha.com stories. Cancel anytime. A worker of the fungus-farming ant species Apterostigma collare from Costa Rica appears in a fungus garden. Shared evolutionary ...

Those ants don’t eat the leaves — instead they bring them back to their nests to feed a garden of fungi, which produce food for the ants. Researchers have now used DNA analysis to uncover just how ...

In 2023 the Yale School of Medicine addressed the apocalyptic spread of the Cordyceps fungus in the series, explaining that while it has been known to seize control of the brain's of insects like ants ...