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

Scientists have discovered a new type of fungus that turns cave spiders into zombies. Unlike the events in the «The Last of ...

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

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

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 ...

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

While filming a TV documentary inside an old Victorian gunpowder store in Northern Ireland, scientists made an intriguing ...

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

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.

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.