"The Last of Us" video game and now the HBO series has made flesh eating zombie fungus a hot topic.

For Stephen Axford and Catherine Marciniak these mushrooms are not the stuff of science fiction.

They have documented them in India, China, Nepal and Australia.

In this video they share some of what they have learned.

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About Stephen
Stephen's images of mushrooms have featured in leading science and nature magazines across the globe, and his time-lapses of fungi growing are in many documentaries including Planet earth 2, Fantastic Fungi, Hostile Planet, Our Planet and The Kingdom; how fungi made the earth. He even has a mushroom named after him – Panaeolus axfordii. He has been invited to document the fungi in Nepal, India, China, Myanmar, Thailand, Mexico and Chile, and of course it is a constant obsession in the fungi hotspots of Tasmania, the NSW north coast and southern Queensland in Australia. He is a Sony Australia ambassador.

About Catherine
Catherine has had a successful international career as a documentary director and cinematographer and as an ABC Features Reporter. Credits include ‘Steel City’, ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’, the ‘Life Series’, ‘Hospital-an unhealthy business, ‘Dino Stampede’, ‘Babe in the Reeds’ and 'Beyond the Royal Veil'. Over her career she has won a number of awards including a Golden Dragon for Science Programming for the project “The Life Series”, also a Finalist in the Logie Awards, and the documentary project 'Leagueability' was a finalist in the Walkley Awards for excellence in journalism.