A fungus that turns spiders into zombies sounds like something straight out of a horror movie. Both arachnophobes and people ...
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 untimely death and ...
Other year-end selections are much larger than a zombie mushroom. In Peru, researchers described an acanth shrub that reaches ...
A fungus named in honour of Sir David Attenborough has been found infecting and manipulating spiders in a Northern Ireland cave turning them into The Last of Us-style “zombies”. Researchers, including ...
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 published ...
Kew Gardens has revealed the strangest plant and fungi discoveries new to science in 2025 – but some are already nearly ...