"We mocked up what a zombie brain would look like," Voytek said, and "it kind of took off." Voytek calls it a way of getting people to accidentally learn something about the brain.

However, we often think of brains as prime zombie cuisine thanks in part to Homer Simpson. In 1985′s “The Return of the Living Dead,” a zombie demanded “braaaaaaains!” for the first time ...

Two words: zombie fish.Just when you thought the ambling undead genre had run out of brains to chew on, Aussie filmmakers Michael and Peter Spierig add a new comic element (aquatic zombies!) and ...

Horror film Day of the Dead: Bloodline is set in a post-apocalyptic, zombie-filled world where a former medical student named Zoe is tormented by a dark figure from her past. The gory twist? He ...

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Zombies may have impaired brain function in many ways, but they do have a razor-sharp sense of smell — at least when it comes to sniffing out living human flesh.

The rotting flesh, the shuffling walk, the unintelligible groans — it's not hard to spot a zombie at a glance even among the most gruesome of Halloween monsters. But what's going on inside their ...