How a Zombie Fungus Takes Over Ants' Jaws to Deliver a Death Bite

An ant infected by a cordyceps fungus with a stroma emerging from the back of its head. (Credit: David P. Hughes, Maj-Britt Pontoppidan/Wikimedia Commons) Forget The Walking Dead – there’s a real zombie outbreak happening right now — though it’s more like the crawling dead. Ants, moths, grasshoppers, wasps and hundreds of other species of insects regularly fall victim to a deadly parasite that hijacks their bodies and brains, causing strange behaviors and eventually leading them to thei

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