Fungus spores. In HBO’s post-apocalyptic zombie thriller The Last of Us, a mutated version of a real-world fungus has infected humans and turned them into zombielike beings covered in mushrooms.

Fungi typically get into your body through a mucus membrane, for instance by inhaling mould spores, or through a break in the skin, like a bite from a zombie in The Last of Us. Since there aren't ...

If you found the famous HBO series The Last of Us to be a closer-to ... muscae is both efficient and deadly. The fungus begins by releasing spores, or conidia, into the environment, where they ...

Health officials are warning about a little-known deadly fungus that caused the biggest fungal outbreak in US history. Last February ... caught by inhaling spores from the fungus Blastomyces.

But here you can see a network of soil fungus, with a reproductive spore at the center of the image. Most people don’t spend a lot of time thinking about how a fungus reproduces, let alone about what ...

But they’re actually spore-producing filaments, growing from a tangle of fibers called hyphae, of a mushroom called scarlet cup fungus. This fungus is known for its bright red, cup-shaped fruiting ...

Fungi reproduce by spewing microscopic spores. If inhaled or they find ... have increased both in size and frequency in the western US over the last three decades, according to environmental ...