A 99-million-year-old fly fossil has found an unlikely second life online. Trapped in amber with a fungus jutting from its ...

What could be the most brutal way for an insect to die? Being struck out of the air by a predator? Snatched in a split second ...

A fly is going about its day, buzzing here, buzzing there—but then, it starts behaving weirdly. Its movements become sluggish; its abdomen swells. Its body sprouts white fuzz. Around sunset, there’s a ...

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Scientists have discovered two new species of ancient parasitic fungi preserved in amber dating back 99 million years. The fungi were growing out of the bodies of host insects that became trapped in ...

(CNN) — Some of the most intriguing science fiction springs from eerie, real-life phenomena. Case in point, the mutant parasite in the video game series “The Last of Us.” Creators of the franchise, ...

Fungi bursts from the head of a fly fossilized in 99-million-year-old amber. © Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, NIGPAS In ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

Cordyceps fungi are parasitic organisms that survive by infecting insects and chemically hijacking their nervous systems to control their behavior . After spores attach to an insect’s body, the fungus ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fungus can be seen growing out of the head of a fly encased in 99 million-year-old amber. - Nanjing Institute of Geology and ...