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

A newly discovered species of fungus takes control of cave-dwelling spiders in Ireland and Northern Ireland, similar to the ...

Scientists have discovered a fungus that turns spiders into “zombies,” luring the arachnids out of their lairs before killing ...

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

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

Republicans are all-in on Team Fascism. That’s a lost cause. But where are the Democrats? I read a book once about “zombie insects.” These are insects that are infected with a type of fungus or other ...

ZOMBIE spiders’ have been found at an Irish beauty spot – and experts reckon there could be more around the country. The rare insects were found in White Fathers Cave, which ...

which are usually insects. Andy MacKinnon, a forest ecologist in British Columbia who studies fungi , calls these "zombie fungi," and says they even exist in Canada. "It's not an uncommon thing ...

Spiders infected with a brain-controlling fungus have been discovered in a Fermanagh cave.

It was found to display the creepy properties seen in zombie-ant fungi, insect-pathogenic fungi that infect and manipulate the behavior of ants. The idea inspired popular culture such as in the ...