Shen Qiang was extremely shocked. When talking about zombies, the most common depiction should be in films and TV series, where humans are infected by a certain virus and become the walking dead. Whether such a miraculous virus truly exists, Shen Qiang does not know, but the existence of the zombie fungus is an undeniable fact.
Its scientific name is Ophiocordyceps. Scientists first discovered them in the Brazilian rainforest. This type of fungal species infects ants, then takes over the ant's brain, killing the former host after finding a new ideal host site and spreading spores in the new host site.
Initially, scientists believed it to be a single species, but later they found that the zombie fungus actually consists of four distinct populations.
Even more interesting is that researchers found that after infecting ants, the four types of zombie fungi use different methods to spread spores.
