Ophiocordyceps unilateralis is a fungal parasite that infects and then kills insects, namely Formicinae ants, Inverse explains. Victims of the fungus go through drastic physical and physiological changes. The fungus begins growing from within the insect, much like how the Cordyceps overtake an infec...
Zombies in The Last of Us are not conjured from beyond the grave nor the result of a mutated virus; rather, they arise from a mutant Cordyceps fungus (which is real...) that infects the brain and turns people into grotesque, fungus-ridden humanoid creatures. Just as a fungus spreads and...