If you've been around Neatorama for a long time, y...  ...g time, you know we've posted a lot of stories of parasites that turn animals into zombies , whether the parasites are from the plant, animal, and fungus kingdoms....  ...e have Ze Frank bringing us up to speed on fun...

The premise of the HBO series The Last of Us is th...  ...Codyceps genus infects humans and turns them into zombies . Just a few days ago we posted about how we don't...  ...militaris without having to go through that whole zombie insect phase. They sell Cordyceps in a dried form...

In the hit HBO series The Last of Us, the world is...  ...nfected flour and has mutated to turn humans into zombies . The genus Cordyceps really does turn its host in...  ...he genus Cordyceps really does turn its host into zombies , but only attacks insects. Does that means we are...

Often when discussing species that go extinct, som...  ...ut smallpox, didn't we? There are plenty of other parasites that cause misery, like fleas, ticks, intestinal...  ...leas, ticks, intestinal worms, and those horrible parasites that cause their hosts to become zombies . B...

We've read plenty of horror stories from nature ab...  ...plenty of horror stories from nature about animal parasites infecting other animals and causing them to behav...  ...d causing them to behave in ways that benefit the parasite . Funguses can do that, too. The parasitic fungus...

The emerald jewel wasp is a parasite that stings a cockroach to turn it into a zombie . It chews off half the roach's antennae, then lea...

The life cycle of the conopid fly reads like a hor...  ...on the ground and digs itself into the soil. In a zombie -like motion, it uses its little bee legs to tunne...

There are many species of parasitic wasps, many of...  ...sitic wasps, many of which we've posted. But even parasites can become the victim of parasites , in this case a plant that feeds on wasps that fe...

Well, I guess that's one way to fight crime and ch...  ...y found in a world where superheroes, aliens, and zombies collides. Or in our world, when you recall the ma...  ..., when you recall the many posts we've done about parasites that turn their hosts into zombies that do...

In case you need a little more nightmare fuel, sci...  ...uel, scientists have been studying a fish eyeball parasite . Diplostomum pseudospathaceum infects a fish's ey...  ...than usual, which protects both the fish and the parasite from predators. But when the larva is mature, it...  ...place in three different...