While filming a TV documentary inside an old Victorian gunpowder store in Northern Ireland, scientists made an intriguing ...

A new species of fungus straight out of a nightmare has been found lurking on the ceiling of an abandoned gunpowder storeroom ...

Ireland is the only place where a unique fungus has been found that infects reclusive spiders in dark caves and turns them ...

Researchers collected samples of the infected spiders and conducted DNA analysis, confirming that they had discovered a ...

A fungus named in honour of Sir David Attenborough has been found infecting and manipulating spiders in a Northern Ireland ...

Scientists identified a new fungus, Gibellula attenboroughii, infecting cave spiders in Ireland. The fungus manipulates ...

A new species of fungus discovered in British and Irish caves turns spiders into “zombies,” forcing them to leave their ...

The spiders, which are most commonly known to hide themselves away, begin to act irregularly when they contract the fungus.

It's the stuff of nightmares - or even the hit TV show and video game The Last of Us: a novel fungus that turns its hosts ...

Dr. Harry Evans, Emeritus Fellow at CAB International, led scientists—including from the Natural History Museum of Denmark ...

DNA analysis reveals the big, flightless moa birds ate — and pooped out — 13 kinds of fungi, including ones crucial for New Zealand’s forest ecosystem.

leading to the spiders favouring the dispersal of the fungal spores over their own lives. “The fact that Gibellula-infected spiders are found in prominent positions on the roof or ceiling of ...