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 ...

The type of fungus that inspired the show, Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, is real; and it really does turn its victims into zombie-like creatures.

University students in the UK find that a zombie virus would render defenseless humans extinct in the span of a single season of "The Walking Dead." ...