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While filming a documentary in Northern Ireland, a team of scientists discovered a new fungus that appears to manipulate ...

The Ophiocordyceps sinensis – colloquially called caterpillar fungus or “Himalayan gold” – it can fetch astronomical prices ...

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

Scientists have discovered a new fungus, Gibellula attenboroughii, that turns reclusive Irish cave spiders into zombies.

The spiders, which are most commonly known to hide themselves away, begin to act irregularly when they contract the fungus.

Fungus-infected 'zombie spiders' discovered in Irish caves - The newly discovered fungal species responsible for their ...

Researchers collected samples of the infected spiders and conducted DNA analysis, confirming that they had discovered a ...