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

“Ants—like us—have biological clocks ... “One thing that we found was that the fungus invades the brain in a very creepy and stereotyped pattern,” she continued. “In the brains of flies that are ...

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 ...

Learn more about the newly identified fungus that is taking over spiders and why it's similar to the Cordyceps fungi that ...

A novel fungus that turns its hosts into 'zombies' has been found in spiders in the White Father's Caves between Cavan and ...

The fungus then changes to a new phase and consumes the ant's organs, including its brain. The spores fall on healthy ants ...

The mushroom is coming out of the ant's rectum, and vegetative part of the fungus is emerging from its abdomen and neck. (image courtesy George Poinar Jr.) Advanced Search ...

A novel fungus named after David Attenborough that turns its hosts into 'zombie spiders' has been found on the UK and Ireland border.

the brain's happy chemical, to make the spider favour the dispersal of the fungal spores over preserving its own life. Scientists say the behaviour of the fungus mirrors that of ants infected by ...