The newly discovered species, named Gibellula attenboroughii, acts in a similar way as the zombie ant fungus, seemingly manipulating its prey to move to a more suitable spot for the fungus to ...

The fungus lures them out of their webs before instigating an untimely death and then uses the spiders’ corpses to spread its spores. The newly discovered species, named Gibellula attenboroughii, acts ...

While shooting a documentary at Castle Espie in Northern Ireland in 2021, a film crew came across a dead spider covered in a ...

A fungal infection has been shown to trigger a fruit fly's own immune system to destroy brain cells leading to signs of neurodegeneration, a new study has found. A fungal infection has been shown ...

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Most people associate foot fungus with sweaty gym environments, but medical experts reveal this persistent infection has sneakier ways of spreading. Dr. Michael Thompson at Northwestern Medicine ...