When Robert Kirkman, the creator of The Walking Dead franchise, first developed the idea of a zombie apocalypse, he gave very little thought to the question of how and why the zombie virus was created ...

[The Last of Us](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_of_Us_(TV_series)) is a show where a fungal infection turns humans into zombie-like creatures. The type of ...

For years the origin of the zombie plague on "The Walking Dead" remained a mystery -- but the question may have finally been ...

If you’ve been on social media recently, you’ve probably seen headlines and posts about a so-called “zombie” virus revived from permafrost, or ground that constantly stays frozen, after nearly 50,000 ...

Scientists have revived a "zombie" virus they say spent nearly 50,000 years frozen in permafrost, part of a new batch of research that identifies several newly discovered viruses that have been frozen ...

Researchers in the Arctic have been recovering and studying viruses locked in the permafrost for centuries, in the hopes that they can head off any negative impacts to animal and human health, an the ...