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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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.

A new species of fungi which infects spiders and turns them into The Last of Us-style “zombies” has been discovered in Irish ...

Scientists recently uncovered a new species of fungus that turns spiders into "zombies," manipulating their behavior before ...

Scientists uncover fungi in Irish caves that can control insects, turning them into "zombies" before spreading spores. A ...