Scientists have discovered a fungus that turns spiders into “zombies,” luring the arachnids out of their lairs before killing ...

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

A new zombie pathogen has been discovered in Ireland. This insidious fungus infects cave spiders and alters their behavior to ...

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

Sci-fi monster seems to have entered the real world, as a mind-controlling strain of fungus has infected spiders in Northern ...

Tim Fogg walked past the zombie spider fungus many times over the years before he learned what it actually was. As someone who explores caves for a living, Fogg would often see little globs of ...

Chinese scientists first became interested in the green zombie’s potential in the ... another type of insect-killing fungus, for instance, can generate three times as many as the spores to ...

Researchers have found a new species of fungi that infects spiders turning them into 'zombies' in Ireland and Northern ...

TL;DR: A new fungus, G. attenboroughii, discovered in Northern Ireland, infects spiders, causing zombie-like effects similar to the zombie-ant fungus. It alters spider behavior to spread spores ...

Scientists say the behaviour of the fungus mirrors that of ants infected by fungi of the genus Ophiocordyceps, previously reported from the Atlantic rainforest of Brazil. The story of the "zombie ...