A new fungus that infects cave spiders and turns them into "zombies" was discovered in a Victorian gunpowder store at Castle Espie in Northern Ireland during filming for a TV show.

You might be familiar with the TV show The Last of Us, where people turn into vicious zombies after being infected by a fungus. These sci-fi monster seems to have now entered the real world, as ...

NORTHERN IRELAND (WKRC) - A recent study discovered a new species of fungus that infects cave spiders and turns them into spore-spreading zombies. The researchers behind the study, which was ...

Researchers identified the novel fungus on two types of spiders inside of a cave system in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. The spiders are known as orb-weaving cave spiders, Metellina ...

The newly-described fungus has drawn “normally reclusive” spiders out of their lairs or webs to die in exposed locations in White Fathers Cave, which lies beneath counties Cavan and Fermanagh.

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”. Researchers ...

A new study explains that the fluffy white fungus likely uses chemical signals to direct cave spiders out of their lairs and into the open. The fungus then kills the spiders and uses the corpses ...

Biologists with an international research collaborative discovered a brain-controlling fungus that infects orb-weaving cave spiders, altering their normally reclusive behavior toward risky ...