Name: Attack of the Zombie Fungus
Uploaded: 2023-01-01
Duration: 33 min 31 s
Description: We think of fungi as the bottom of the food chain, the recyclers in the circle of life. But fungi are predators. They feed on life. And there are more out there than we ever knew. As we spread into every corner of planet Earth, they are also discovering us – and that we might be the perfect host.

We think of fungi as the bottom of the food chain, the recyclers in the circle of life. But fungi are predators. They feed on life. And there are more out there than we ever knew. As we spread into every corner of planet Earth, they are also discovering us – and that we might be the perfect host.

Explore how parasitic fungi hijack ants, cicadas, spiders, and other hosts, then follow the science into rising threats to amphibians, bats, and humans. This documentary connects eerie behavior, cellular mechanisms, and emerging diseases like Candida auris into a gripping look at a kingdom far more dangerous than most of us imagine. Sign up to see how close this hidden world already is.

When fungi turn insects into puppets, the real science gets darker.

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