Scientists Discover Zombie Ants In Brazil
Repeat after me:
Zombie.
Ants.
Scientists have found that a fungus infects ants to apparently propagate the fungi in areas favorable to spreading the fungi around in the jungles of Brazil.
Repeat after me:
Zombie.
Ants.
Scientists have found that a fungus infects ants to apparently propagate the fungi in areas favorable to spreading the fungi around in the jungles of Brazil.
5 comments
2 | Fenris Tue, May 10, 2011 10:34:38am |
We've got Argentine ants forming a global mega-colony, Raspberry ants at NASA that eat electronic components, and now this?
You know, I'm just gonna go ahead and bow to my new Formicidae overlords.
3 | yasharki Tue, May 10, 2011 11:03:53am |
Old news is so exciting...
This was "revealed", with gorgeous imagery, on BBC's "Planet Earth - Jungles".
Years ago.
Just search for "cordyceps fungus" on youtube.
5 | windsagio Tue, May 10, 2011 1:44:42pm |
re: #3 yasharki
Old news is so exciting...
This was "revealed", with gorgeous imagery, on BBC's "Planet Earth - Jungles".
Years ago.Just search for "cordyceps fungus" on youtube.
That image severely creeped me out the first time I saw it, and it still does... Serious nogoodjob.