Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Zombie Types
http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Zombie_Types
So here are different types of zombies found throughout the world... Pretty eye-opening, eh?
Friday, November 11, 2011
Zombie Cockroaches!
So yeah. Here's a second one. Except this one deals with bees stinging cockroaches and making them their paralyzed, undead slaves!
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Zombie Fungus!
This is legitimate. I thought you zombies would like a little bit more for your projects!
The world just got a little weirder: Scientists have identified four new species of brain-controlling fungi that turn ants into zombies that do the parasite's bidding before it kills them.
Identified from samples collected at two sites in Brazil'stropical rain forest, each of the four species specializes in controlling a different species of carpenter ant.
The original zombie-ant fungus, Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, was first identified in 1865, and it seems to exist around the world. [Mind-Controlling Parasites Date Back Millions of Years]
"So we knew, right off the bat, there was a range of other species within that," said study researcher David Hughes, an entomologist at Pennsylvania State University". "I think it will turn out to be in the hundreds."
Once it infects an ant, the fungus uses as-yet-unidentified chemicals to control the ant's behavior, Hughes told LiveScience. It directs the ant to leave its colony (a very un-ant-like thing to do) and bite down on the underside of a leaf — the ant's soon-to-be resting place. Once it is killed by the fungus, the ant remains anchored in place, thanks to its death grip on the leaf.
Ultimately, the fungus produces a long stalk that protrudes from the ant's head, shooting spores out in the hopes of infecting other ants. Two of the four newly discovered species also sprouted smaller stalks elsewhere, including from the victim's feet and lower leg joints – the equivalent of knees.
The spores of the four species also had distinct features and germination processes.
Hughes is concerned that one of the four fungus species, O. camponoti-novogranadensis, may not be around for much longer. During their visits to Brazil, Hughes and his colleagues saw that the high-elevation site where the species was found had become markedly drier and hotter. Hughes attributed the change in conditions at the Parque Estadual de Itacolomi, which is near the World Heritage Site Ouro Preto, to global warming.
The ants can survive this shift in the local climate, but "the fungus can't," he said. "What we think we will see is the extinction event of the fungus we just managed to describe." (Hughes said fungi are essential aquatic organisms living in terrestrial environments, making them extra-sensitive to a drying climate.)
The research by Hughes and colleagues Simon Elliot and Harry Evans appears online today (March 2) in the journal PLoS ONE.
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Thursday, November 10, 2011
The Humans Are Headed for Hawaii
This just in, from the humans:
Their goal is survival,and maybe finding people.
They are in Hawaii, Alaska, Canada, and Southern California, but they have radios and interact.
They are working their way toward Doug in California, where they hope to find a boat to Hawaii, which they've heard is zombie free.
Deadline: need to be done before winter.
A problem: How should we best dispose of zombie bodies?
The Zombies' Story, In Their Own Words...
A group of scientists in an underground laboratory somewhere in Nevada, was trying to create a formula to grant humans immortality, they were able to create a viral formula that granted humans this immortality, but at a great cost...
The formula was first tested on cats, which became extremely feral and aggressive. Many of the scientists were wary of the consequences that would occur if the formula were to be tested on a human. However a radical group of scientists decided to test on a homeless person that they abducted from the streets of LA. They tested their formula on the man they kidnapped, and kept him in a holding cell hidden away from many of the other scientists.
A few days after the human experiment became what is soon to be termed as a zombie, a small group of alien hunters break into the underground laboratory and find the holding cell of the first zombie. They thought he was a alien in human form and they opened his cell so that they could test their alien hypothesis. They are attacked and the first zombie is loosed to infect the world.
The effects of the virus is that either they were what would be considered as brain-dead, mechanized, and exceptionally strong zombies; or they were semi-human, mentally functioning zombies that were still actually living. The main difference of these two different versions of zombies was whither or not they were “alive” in the medical sense. If the infected individual had full bodily circulation of blood, and their respiratory system was working properly and they were in essence living, they would be the second type of zombie. However if the person who was the “living” zombie died, then they would quickly become the first kind of zombie – the un-dead zombie. The un-dead zombies are essentially the brain craving, arms grappling, moaning seemingly incomprehensible words, and slowly stumbling towards the nearest available food source type of zombie that is often depicted in Hollywood cinema. Those that were the living type of zombies banded together to for a sort of tribe. They then emerged from the underground base and attack the nearest town to satiate their new desire for raw protein.
Thus started the zombie apocalypse…
The nomadic tribe of original living zombies moves from town to town spreading the zombie virus. Their initial idea was to form a army of undead zombies, but the undead zombies proved to be uncontrollable, so they had to change their tactics. The new plan was to go from town to town and turn the most valuable people into the living zombies, and the rest of them could be the undead zombies for all they cared. This is the journeys of the original zombies, as told by various members of the tribe.
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