Those left disappointed by the lack of Cordyceps-induced zombies in season one, the show’s co-creator Craig Mazin offered reassurance in an interview with Empire Magazine, saying “for the people who ...

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 ...

Talk with any mycologist these days—really, anyone who’s obsessed with fungi—and it won’t take long to arrive at the subject of the zombie apocalypse. Obviously, fungi can be terrifying. They are the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the dystopian world of the TV series, a heat-adapted version of the cordyceps fungus takes over humans, turning them into ...

If you've watched HBO's "The Last of Us," the sight of mushroom coffee or cordyceps supplements at the health-food store might set off alarm bells. In the show and video game's postapocalyptic ...

The hit HBO show "The Last of Us" may have taken the world by storm this year (and the video game world nearly a decade ago), but the villain in the series has been around much longer than either of ...

A scene from The Last of Us, which helped propel the idea of dangerous Cordyceps fungi into popular culture. AP Video game-turned-HBO series “The Last of Us,” of course, is science fiction. Yet the ...

Related video: How does the CDC track disease? TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — As if climate change and rent weren’t bad enough, could zombies be on the horizon? With the popularity of HBO’s “The Last of Us,” a ...

If your taste in horror entertainment runs to post-apocalyptic sagas peppered with cannibals, the collapse of society, and mushroom-headed zombies, you could probably do worse than HBO’s adaptation of ...

CU Boulder mycologist Alisha Quandt says there’s little reason to fear a fungi-zombie apocalypse like the one imagined in the HBO hit TV series ‘The Last of Us’ Alisha Quandt prepared herself in ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Under the shadow of Pinnacle Mountain, Jay Justice has been heading off the beaten path— in search of his lifelong fascination. "Here they is! Right here," Justice said, as he ...