Scientists at the University of Victoria (UVic) in British Columbia have made an alarming discovery: zombie worms are missing from B.C.’s ocean floor. These missing worms spell trouble, but not for ...

Fallen whale carcasses offer islands of nutrition within an otherwise sparse seafloor, and with help from bone-eating zombie worms, they can sustain an entire ecosystem for decades. But in recent ...

A newly named Australian tree nicknamed the “zombie tree” cannot reproduce because of a deadly fungal disease.

We promise this isn’t as sinister as it sounds: Russian scientists have revived and cloned 24,000-year-old zombies. For this experiment, the scientists went to Siberia and carved off a slice of ...

Scientists are urgently trying to save a recently identified rainforest tree species that is threatened by a devastating fungal disease that has rendered it unable to grow, reproduce or sustain a ...