A glob of 99M-year-old amber trapped a zombie fungus erupting from a fly
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Re: A glob of 99M-year-old amber trapped a zombie fungus erupting from a fly
#2Zombie fungi pulled from amber is the makings of a movie ;)
Re: A glob of 99M-year-old amber trapped a zombie fungus erupting from a fly
#3Zombie fungi pulled from amber is the makings of a movie ;)
Sounds like a more promising direction than what the Jurrasic Park franchise is doing currently.
Re: A glob of 99M-year-old amber trapped a zombie fungus erupting from a fly
#4These 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.
Re: A glob of 99M-year-old amber trapped a zombie fungus erupting from a fly
#5Zombie fungi pulled from amber is the makings of a movie ;)
Next iteration: Jurassic Park + The Last of Us
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#7Zombie fungi pulled from amber is the makings of a movie ;)
The Velociraptor With All The Gifts.
Re: A glob of 99M-year-old amber trapped a zombie fungus erupting from a fly
#8Zombie fungi pulled from amber is the makings of a movie ;)
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
Re: A glob of 99M-year-old amber trapped a zombie fungus erupting from a fly
#9Zombie fungi pulled from amber is the makings of a movie ;)
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 Cord…
"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-i...
Re: A glob of 99M-year-old amber trapped a zombie fungus erupting from a fly
#10These 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…
> Trees, for example, have separately evolved at least 100 times.
Can you explain more? Sounds interesting