A researcher at Vanderbilt University may have found out how American cockroaches can avoid their own “zombie apocalypse.” Ken Catania, a biologist and professor at the school, videotaped interactions ...

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A cockroach has been filmed karate kicking a parasitic wasp to save itself from becoming a zombie. Ken Catania, a biologist at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee, was studying the interactions between ...

Make no mistake, zombies are very real. Sure, zombies of the human variety aren’t going to wander down your street, The Walking Dead-style, any time soon, but zombies of a different sort are scuttling ...

A rare wasp that uses its venom to control the mental activity of a cockroach — sending the bug into a zombie-like state — might hold the key to understanding what happens in the brains of people with ...

It's Halloween, so prepare to be terrified. And no, this column has nothing to do with Open Enrollment Season. Instead, it relates to the emerald cockroach wasp, a wisp of an insect that you may have ...

A wasp that preys on cockroaches turns them into mind-controlled zombies by stinging them in the brain, and roaches were thought to be all but defenseless against this zombifying attack. But it turns ...

It’s like a horror movie come to life. In a new study, biologists say there’s a certain type of wasp, called the emerald jewel wasp, that has a peculiar way of making sure its young have a head start ...

If cockroaches had nightmares, the emerald cockroach wasp surely would deserve a prominent place therein. These colorful, tiny parasitic wasps sting American cockroaches twice, once in the midsection ...