Yup, scientists have discovered a fungus that make ants zombies.
When an ant walks over this fungus, it launches spores into the ant, penetrating its exoskeleton.
From there, the spores release toxins that go to the ant's nervous system, and then the fungus controls the ant.
The ant at this point is like an RC- car, being fully controlled by this fungus.
Then, the fungus controls the ant and makes it die in a specific position in an idea place for the fungus to grow. When the ant gets to this place, the fungus kills it. Then the spores spread, and spread the fungus.
Apparently as of right now there are four types of this fungus known, but as we search more places, we could find more types of the fungus.
Now this is cool and all, but what if this fungus was modified to be able to control humans? Then spread over entire continents. We would then have real life zombies, well, they would be controlled.
This scares me. This is creepy.
Here is a link to the article: http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/03/07/tech-zombie-ants-fungus.html
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