In What If...? season 1, we visited a reality inhabited by "Marvel Zombies." The episode concluded with Spider-Man, Black Panther, and Ant-Man (well, his head at ...

As a counterpoint to the story about fungal spider zombies and the terrifying photo that accompanies it, researchers at Chapman University studied the skull morphology and behavior of cute dogs to ...

“This would have been extremely unlikely coming from the spider itself, so that triggered the study and then scientists found out that in fact, it is one of those zombie-making fungi that can ...

The newly-described fungus infects normally reclusive cave-dwelling spiders in Cavan and Fermanagh and makes them makes them head to exposed sites, where they die, to help spread fungal spores ...

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 ...

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The boys are back with everyone’s favorite segment, “Say What?!”. Today, we get to hear from the boys about Irish spiders ...

A fungus named in honour of David Attenborough has been found infecting and manipulating spiders in an Irish cave, turning them into The Last of Us-style zombies. Researchers found that the fungi ...

Feb. 4, 2025 — Researchers have identified the molecular and cellular mechanisms that transform healthy stem cells into oral cancer at the earliest stages of the ...