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

There are some pretty weird relationships in the animal world. Some parasites exist only in the eyes of the world’s oldest ...

A BBC documentary crew in Northern Ireland stumbled upon a fungus that hijacks spiders in an arachnid version of “The Last of ...

In an Irish cave, a TV crew found a dead spider covered with a fungus. The fungus turned out to be a new species that turned ...

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 ...

A newly discovered fungus that turns spiders into “zombies” has been found in caves across Northern Ireland and the Republic ...

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

Scientists have discovered a new fungus, Gibellula attenboroughii, that turns reclusive Irish cave spiders into zombies.

A fungus discovered in Ireland infects cave spiders, altering their behaviour before using their bodies to spread spores.

A new species of fungus straight out of a nightmare has been found lurking on the ceiling of an abandoned gunpowder storeroom ...