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Recent research has found that these parasites can compel ants to climb up blades of grass when it's cool and to climb back down when it's too hot. Reading time 3 minutes Parasitic worms that zombify ...

Eternal youth is the first thing many of us might wish for if we stumbled onto a genie or a magic monkey’s paw, but there’s always a catch. Now, scientists have discovered a version of this story ...

In a recently published study in the journal Scientific Reports, scientists looked inside the head of ant overtaken by gruesome, mind-controlling parasites. The parasite, the lancet liver fluke, is a ...

Zombies are real, and nature is teeming with them. Fungi take over the brains of ants, wasps paralyze cockroaches—a practice called zombification. “Scientists have found that fungi, bacteria, wasps, ...