Some parasites exist only in the eyes of the world’s oldest sharks, while researchers have been researching fungus that ...

Scientists identified a new fungus, Gibellula attenboroughii, infecting cave spiders in Ireland. The fungus manipulates ...

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

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

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More information: H.C. Evans et al, The araneopathogenic genus Gibellula (Cordycipitaceae: Hypocreales) in the British Isles, including a new zombie species on orb-weaving cave spiders (Metainae ...

Scientists have found a fungus that creates spider zombies after they accidentally stumbled upon it in a Victorian gunpowder store on the grounds of a destroyed Irish castle. A new study ...

It was found to display the creepy properties seen in zombie-ant fungi, insect-pathogenic fungi that infect and manipulate ...

Researchers have identified a new form of zombie fungus that is infecting spiders in Irish caves. According to the study published in Fungal Systematics and Evolution, the spider species were found in ...

A new fungal species named in honor of Sir David Attenborough is making 'The Last of Us '-style zombies of cave spiders, researchers say. A study investigated the identity of the fungus found on ...