The idea of zombies has fascinated humans for centuries. Real-life parasites have been taking over the minds of insects for ...

A parasite commonly called "the zombie snail" has been found at Lake Murray. In 2019, a student of Scripps Institution of Oceanography Professor Ryan Hechinger found a snail that looked a little ...

A parasite commonly called "the zombie snail" has been found at Lake Murray. In 2019, a student of Scripps Institution of Oceanography Professor Ryan Hechinger found a snail that looked a little ...

Zombies are real – not in the walking dead sense, but there are parasites that can hack the brains of living creatures and ...

Mindy Weisberger’s book, Rise of the Zombie Bugs, explores the sophisticated—and macabre—relationships between zombifying ...

These eerie, white-foamed spiders are infected by a parasitic, entomopathogenic fungus that takes control of their brains and bodies, putting them into a zombie-like state. Slowly but surely ...

Then there is the phenomenon of the zombie snails, which is too bizarre to omit. This occurs when snails ingest the Luco chloridium parasite, which makes their antennae swell and strobe ...

Free-swimming stage of the trematode parasite. A single infected snail can release thousands of these tailed-stage parasites into the water every day. At this stage the parasite swims out from an ...