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

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

The freaky fungus was first spotted on an orb-weaving spider (Metellina merianae) by a team filming a BBC documentary series in Northern Ireland in 2021. (It was also later found in the Republic ...

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

Ahead of the return of the hit fungus-zombie horror series The Last ... The infected spiders altered their usual routines. The first “zombie” spider was found on the ceiling of an abandoned ...

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

Tim Fogg walked past the zombie spider fungus many times over the years before he learned what it actually was. As someone who explores caves for a living, Fogg would often see little globs of ...

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 ...

Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage. Tim Fogg walked past the zombie spider fungus many times over the years before he learned what it actually was. Fogg would often ...