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

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

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

A new fungus that infects cave spiders and turns them into "zombies" was discovered in a Victorian gunpowder store at Castle ...

The new fungus, Gibellula attenboroughii, found in Northern Ireland, has been officially recognized by scientists in a recent ...

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 ...

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

The shaded orbweaver or orb-weaving cave spider (Metellina merianae) appears to serve as the fungus’ primary host ... deploys mucus slime balls to make ‘zombie ants’] Breakthroughs ...

An earlier specimen of infected spider ... fungus species, facilitating the release and dispersal of fungal spores. “Infected spiders exhibit behavioural changes similar to those reported for ...

The fungus changes the spider's behaviour ... reported from the Atlantic rainforest of Brazil. The story of the "zombie ants" led to a number of zombie-fungus themed books, as well as the hugely ...

During their investigation, they stumbled upon the so-called 'zombie ... published in Fungal Systematics and Evolution. Scientists now plan to explore the fungus’s role in spider population ...