By Susan Milius
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REAL LIVE UNDEAD from Science News on Vimeo.
This ant, turned into a kind of zombie by a fatal fungus infection, has taken its final death-grip bite into a leaf vein and merely twitches slightly instead of attacking when an interloper scurries over.
Credit: D. Hughes