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

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 ...

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

A new fungus species in Europe, Gibellula attenboroughii, transforms cave spiders into 'zombies.' This fungus manipulates spiders to leave their webs, then kills them and uses their corpses to spread ...

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

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 ...

Ireland is the only place where a unique fungus has been found that infects reclusive spiders in dark caves and turns them ...

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

is a newly discovered species that spreads its spore by hijacking a spider and turning the unlucky arachnid into a zombie. This evolutionary strategy has been made famous by the zombie ant fungus ...