This freaky slime mould from HBO's The Last of Us isn't a fungus at all – but it is a brainless predator

  • Written by: Chris R. Reid, ARC Future Fellow, Macquarie University
This freaky slime mould from HBO's The Last of Us isn't a fungus at all – but it is a brainless predatorSlime mould navigating a food grid.Chris R. Reid/Macquarie University, Author provided

In HBO’s post-apocalyptic drama The Last of Us, human civilisation has fallen in the face of a fungal takeover triggered by climate change.

The show’s opening credits and creature designs are inspired by the slime mould Physarum polycephalum. But while...

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