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 ...

A new fungus, Gibellula attenboroughii, was discovered on spiders in Irish caves. It changes their behavior, similar to ...

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 ...

While filming a documentary in Northern Ireland, a team of scientists discovered a new fungus that appears to ... deploys mucus slime balls to make ‘zombie ants’] Breakthroughs, discoveries ...

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 ...

Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science and space. Ahead of the return of the hit fungus-zombie horror series The Last of Us, scientists announced the discovery of a species of fungus that ...

The authors noted that this behavior was consistent with the famous "zombie-ant" fungus. The researchers said they believe the fungus does this to be closer to airflow, so that its spores may be ...

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 ...

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 ...