Get out of my head. GET OUT OF MY HEAD!!
Cordyceps Fungus - The mind-control Killer-Fungi
( Crap Little Monkey Deathstar, so good they built it twice, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 10:48, Reply)

This is awesome stuff.
Nature is truly incredible.
( FoldsFive, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 10:54, Reply)

Ooooooooooooh
Wow.
( Monty Propps, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 10:58, Reply)

Argh! The Flood!
Actually I'm sure I've heard of parasites that can alter human behaviour....
(Metalfish Hasn't had a sig since, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 11:05, Reply)

www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1635495
(Cakie capable runt, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 11:47, Reply)

That is the scariest shit I have ever read.
Wikipedia's entry on the parasite is easier to read. But this still is pretty scary shit.
( shoddyback nice 2 B important, but more important 2 B nice, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 12:06, Reply)

That is fucking awesome
I love nature stuff about 'creepy cr5awlies' cos it is, literally, another world.

Lions and stuff you can see at a safari park.
THIS is totally alien to us
( Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 11:06, Reply)

unless you're a student
then their's enough shit going on under your bed to start a drug lab
( Firkinfedup last shat on your wife's tits at, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 13:44, Reply)

Their's?
FUCKING "THEIR'S"??????
( Black Moon Not cracked, I'm all up to be., Sat 25 Oct 2008, 0:38, Reply)

Hahahaha!

(Mr Hippo Produced by Fred Quimby, Sat 25 Oct 2008, 20:31, Reply)

Cool
I found this from that video. Zombie snails
( BindiBaji, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 11:08, Reply)

Eurgh!
This gave me the creeping horrors when I read about it in an X-files book I got years ago. The ants are particularly odd, as they normall spend their entire life on the forest floor, and don't really have a concept of 'up' - The fungus makes them climb.

My scalp-s itching just thinking about it.
( moogthedog, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 11:09, Reply)

Assume for a second the creationists are right
... this would mean god's a pretty twisted little fucker.
(simon shitting mason, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 11:10, Reply)

I'm not an ant
But that almost gave me teh fear.

Let's hope that never falls into the hands of terrorists - ID cards for every ant is a small price to pay for security.
(fridgefreezer inserted a topical reference into his sig on, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 11:12, Reply)

At least they wouldn't have any problems carrying them
What with them being able to lift 10 times their own body weight and all
( The Coast Of Yemen, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 11:13, Reply)

ha ha ha :D

( The magic of chutney Shakes it like an Instagram filter!, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 12:26, Reply)

That's fucking awesome!
*clicks*
( redazril I LIKE DRUGS!, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 11:12, Reply)

Aaaaaaaaaarrrrrggghhhhhhhhhhhhh!!
*breathes* Aaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrggghhhhhhhh!

*cries*
(Dang, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 11:19, Reply)

THAT
is why I avoid cooking with mushrooms. Can't be too careful...
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 11:53, Reply)

I would like to welcome our fungi overlords

( shoddyback nice 2 B important, but more important 2 B nice, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 12:07, Reply)

Could
we devolop a strain that goes for politicians?
(uk_viper stopped lurking on, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 12:47, Reply)

Interesting stuff
Top link
( Jahled Three shades of black, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 13:10, Reply)

Arrrghhhhh!
Arrrghhhhhhhh!

Arrrghhh!
( LemonEntryMyDearWatson This time, Moriarty, the hand is on the other foot, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 15:57, Reply)

RELEASE THE SPORES!
:D
( Kallus speaks for the Spores, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 12:29, Reply)

Whenever I watch this it reminds me of Orson Scott Card.

( Pedantichrist twitter.com/LordManley, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 13:56, Reply)

That is awesome
if only there was an equivalent that attacked humans - it would have stopped us overpopulating the earth :)
( Peregr1n @peregr1n, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 20:56, Reply)

I bet Shyamalan
will make a film about it now.
( Black Moon Not cracked, I'm all up to be., Sat 25 Oct 2008, 0:40, Reply)