A new fungus, Gibellula attenboroughii, was discovered on spiders in Irish caves. It changes their behavior, similar to ...

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 BBC documentary crew in Northern Ireland stumbled upon a fungus that hijacks spiders in an arachnid version of “The Last of ...

Unlike anything we’ve ever seen before, this giant mushroom also has psychedelic properties. When you think of a ...

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

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

Hanging the washing out to dry in the garden has been a rare sight these last few months, with winter storms bringing ...

The discovery of so-called ‘zombie spiders’ in a network of caves that lie beneath an Irish prison has caught the attention of staff there. Loughan House open prison in Co Cavan is built on land over ...

A fungus named in honour of Sir David Attenborough has been found infecting and manipulating spiders in a Northern Ireland cave turning them into The Last of Us -style “ zombies ”. At such a critical ...

The new fungus, Gibellula attenboroughii, found in Northern Ireland, has been officially recognized by scientists in a recent ...