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

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 ...

Not only are more cicadas than usual expected this year, but some of them will be "zombie cicadas" that are infected by a sexually transmitted fungus that ... but to take photos if they see ...

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 ...

Scientists say the behaviour of the fungus mirrors that of ants infected by fungi of the genus Ophiocordyceps, previously reported from the Atlantic rainforest of Brazil. The story of the "zombie ...

(CNN) — Scientists in Europe have identified a previously unknown species of fungus that turns cave spiders into “zombies.” The fungus lures them out of their webs before instigating an ...