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A glob of 99M-year-old amber trapped a zombie fungus erupting from a fly
- TruffleLabs 1y agoZombie fungi pulled from amber is the makings of a movie ;)
- excalibur 1y agoSounds like a more promising direction than what the Jurrasic Park franchise is doing currently.
- metadat 1y agoNext iteration: Jurassic Park + The Last of Us
- chakintosh 1y agoJurassic in Us
- reactordev 1y agoThe Last Park - because zombie Jurassic creatures is the last thing this world needs.
- nosioptar 1y agoWe already have a bunch of Jurassic zombies. Most people call them senators.
- reactordev 1y agoCan’t wait for the Cretaceous period…
- pryelluw 1y agoThe Last of Them. Shivers …
- teeray 1y agoThis gives the whole raptor clicker training Chris Pratt did a whole new interpretation.
- shawn_w 1y agoThe Velociraptor With All The Gifts.
- adityaathalye 1y agohttps://bombaylitmag.com/contribution/the-cordyception/ https://bombaylitmag.com/contribution/the-cordyception/ In my imagined world of Halahala, silent stories have occupied prime real estate since 2005. I think of them like music without lyrics, jazz-like in the experience. The Cordyception is another riff on Halahala’s staple theme of nature, sustainability and our obsession with a certain ladder. An Attenborough documentary led me to these marvellous fungi called Cordyceps and the rest is pure Halahala. The fungi infect and take over specific insect-hosts – body and mind – commanding them to a high vantage point for dispersing spores. I swear I drew this before the pandemic —Appupen
- HelloUsername 1y ago"The BBC show we were ripping off (for 'The Last of Us') is Planet Earth, where they talked about the cordiceps fungus and how it affects insects." https://venturebeat.com/2013/08/06/the-last-of-us-creators-inspirations/view-all/ https://venturebeat.com/2013/08/06/the-last-of-us-creators-i...
- ge96 1y agoThaw, The Thing (overt), Andromeda Strain, Deep Rising (overt)
- pfdietz 1y agoThese aren't necessarily related to today's Ophiocordyceps fungus. Fungi that take control of arthropods and cause them to climb to disperse spores have convergently evolved more than once, including Arthrophaga myriapodina, which affects millipedes, and is in a different Division (the level above Class) from Ophiocordyceps. Convergent evolution is more common than you might think. Trees, for example, have separately evolved at least 100 times.
- n_kr 1y ago> Trees, for example, have separately evolved at least 100 times. Can you explain more? Sounds interesting
- jgilias 1y agoNot OP, but: https://eukaryotewritesblog.com/2021/05/02/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-tree/ https://eukaryotewritesblog.com/2021/05/02/theres-no-such-th...
- pfdietz 1y agoThank you for link. As an aside there: the blog post briefly talks about birds. It turns out that membrane wings are much easier to evolve than feathered wings. There have been lots of membrane winged creatures (including "birds" with membrane wings in the Jurassic) but not nearly as many appearances of feathered wings. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxA38gH8Gj4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxA38gH8Gj4
- andrewflnr 1y agoTrees are barely a firm category of plant at all. It's basically just tall plants with woody stems. Plants can gain and lose woody stems without too much trouble (relatively speaking, over evolutionary time). So any time a plant species currently growing soft stems can benefit from being really tall, they have a good chance of evolving into "trees".
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- downrightmike 1y agoFungi likely precedes the Dinos by 100's millions of years
- usrbinbash 1y ago"You want Zombie Apocalypse?! Because THAT's how you get Zombie Apocalypse!"
- nervousvarun 1y agoEveryone is understandably referencing the Last of Us but Common Side Effects deserves a mention as well. I for one welcome our new mushroom overlords. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Side_Effects https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Side_Effects
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- WediBlino 1y ago"Bomb the city and everything in it"
- davidpfarrell 1y agoWhen you realize the fungus' primary intent was to convince the fly to land in amber ...
- cwmoore 1y ago…and wait for us at this moment…
- bluepuma77 1y ago"Cold Storage" by American screenwriter David Koepp comes to mind, a comedy splatter novel. I don't usually read such books, but this one was funny and entertaining.
- jackgavigan 1y agoApparently set to become a movie, starring Liam Neeson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_Storage_(film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_Storage_(film)