The new fungus species Gibellula attenboroughii forces reclusive cave spiders to exposed areas, likely to benefit spore dispersal.

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

Zombie horror series The Last of Us might feel a little more real after you learn about a fungus that infects cave spiders ...

Fungus named after David Attenborough turning Irish spiders into 'zombies’ - Findings point to hidden diversity of this class ...

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

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 ...

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

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.

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

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

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 ...

The newly-described fungus infects normally reclusive cave-dwelling spiders in Cavan and Fermanagh and makes them makes them head to exposed sites, where they die, to help spread fungal spores ...