At first glance, the insect trapped in golden resin looked like any other tiny victim of deep time. Only under close ...

Imagine spending 17 years underground preparing for your big debut just for a fungus to ruin your moment. For some of the periodical cicadas of Brood X, there’s no need to imagine. It's their reality.

In the remote Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, a rare fungus grows inside dead caterpillars. In traditional Chinese medicine, this ...

LISLE, Illinois (AP) — With their bulging red eyes and their alien-like mating sound, periodical cicadas can seem scary and weird enough. But some of them really are sex-crazed zombies on speed, ...

The love for all things creepy and spooky is at an all-time high around this time of year. We love to subject ourselves to the horrors of haunted houses and our favorite fright-filled films, but do we ...

Against its will, it crawled up the stalk, marching toward its final destination. And then, from its skull burst forth the invader from within, releasing a bevy of its alien brood. This horror may ...

The fungus is like something out of a horror movie: The organism hijacks the body and brain of its ant host, mind-controlling it into abandoning its nest and climbing a nearby tree. There, the ...

Scientists have identified a marine fungus that was previously unknown and is capable of killing toxic algae known to ...