The rainforest is still a haven of undiscovered species, some of whose life cycles are hard to comprehend as they are so specialised. Scientists from the University of Malaysia Sabah's Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation recently discovered a new species of parasitic fungi that prey on a so-called “zombie fungus” that itself infects ants and subjects them to a gruesome death to propagate itself. This hyperparasite, as it is called, infiltrates and feeds on the zombie f