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 fungus, Gibellula attenboroughii, was discovered on spiders in Irish caves. It changes their behavior, similar to ...

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

A newly discovered fungus — named after naturalist Sir David Attenborough — transforms cave spiders into zombies ... s fascination with zombifying fungi — researching this association ...

This evolutionary strategy has been made famous by the zombie ... fungus in Irish caves. Each of the five infected spiders Mr. Fogg collected was engulfed by a tiny, tangled thicket of fungi.

by Evans et al., Fungal Systematics and Evolution, 2025 According to Harry Evans, lead author of the paper, only 1% of fungi on Earth have been discovered by humans. Gibellula attenboroughii ...

NORTHERN IRELAND (WKRC) - A recent study discovered a new species of fungus that infects cave spiders and turns them into spore-spreading zombies. The researchers behind the study, which was ...

TL;DR: A new fungus, G. attenboroughii, discovered in Northern Ireland, infects spiders, causing zombie-like effects ... After all, it was a real condition (Ophiocordyceps unilateralis) occurring ...

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 into "zombies". Thankfully, so far, it's only been found in spiders ...

A new species of fungi which infects spiders and turns them into The Last of Us-style “zombies” has been discovered in Irish caves. The newly-described fungus has drawn “normally reclusive ...

“Infected spiders exhibit behavioural changes similar to those reported for zombie ants,” scientists write in the study. The fungi, named Gibellula attenboroughii, manipulate hosts by ...