ZOMBIE-LIKE ANIMALS

Police in Youngstown, Ohio have received more than a dozen calls last March regarding a plague of zombie raccoons! The nocturnal animals were often seen ...

It’s a little known fact that praying mantises have been known to dine on small birds.  This is, of course, very unusual, as the food ...

Winter is coming, but it won’t stop the undead! Freezing weather or sub-arctic areas may offer survivors a respite from zombie attacks; referred to as ...

Reports of tick-borne meat allergies are on the rise this summer as a plague of rare, bloodsucking parasites continue to spread across the southern United ...

From hairworms to cordyceps, the Zombie Research Society has studied a number of terrifying and deadly parasites. But a PhD student at the University of ...

Researchers at Caltech and Harvard have been doing some very interesting work in bio-engineering entire organisms using various tissues from animals and applying them to ...

People who are skeptical that there ever could be anything even remotely resembling a zombie apocalypse point to the fact that, short of something supernatural, ...

We have covered extensively the Ophiocordyceps fungus that affects ants in the wilderness– one that takes over the brain of the ant, and makes it ...

National Wildlife Federation naturalist David Mizejewski recently published an article (on BoingBoing) in which he examines a little discussed  zombie apocalypse topic.  Exactly  how would ...

Israeli scientists have recently discovered how a jewel wasp’s sting controls the mind of a cockroach, opening the door to understanding the neurobiology of free ...