Behold the fungus that turns spiders into zombies and marches them to their deaths
A newly discovered species of fungus takes control of cave-dwelling spiders in Ireland and Northern Ireland, similar to the ...
ExplorersWeb on MSN9d
A Mysterious Fungus Turns Irish Cave Spiders Into Zombies
In an Irish cave, a TV crew found a dead spider covered with a fungus. The fungus turned out to be a new species that turned ...
Hosted on MSN1mon
A 1,200-Year-Old British Cave Dwelling Is Believed To Have Been The Ancient Lair Of An Exiled King
Archaeologists identified a British cave dwelling as the refuge for an exiled Anglo-Saxon king in 2021. Before then, Anchor Church Caves was considered to be an extravagant building that had been ...
Scientists Discover "Zombie" Fungus That Seizes Control of Spiders, Suggest It Be Used for Human Medicine
While filming a TV documentary inside an old Victorian gunpowder store in Northern Ireland, scientists made an intriguing ...
Fungus Drives ‘Zombie’ Spiders Out Of Their Cave Lairs
Zombie horror series The Last of Us might feel a little more real after you learn about a fungus that infects cave spiders ...
Business Insider2y
Take a look at China's sunken courtyard houses, where people traditionally lived in pit homes carved into the ground
Also called "dikengyuan" in Mandarin, which means "pit courtyards," the homes are a type of cave dwelling ("yaodong") commonly found in the Loess Plateau in northern China. "Academic literature ...
Irish Daily Mirror6d
'Zombie spiders' infected with fungus discovered dwelling in Irish caves
The cave-dwelling spiders found scurrying around the White Father Caves, which lie beneath Cavan and Fermanagh, were found to be infected with a form of fungus dubbed Gibellula attenboroughii ...
Fungus-infected "zombie spiders" found in Irish caves
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 ...