Scientists have discovered a never-before-seen mind-controlling fungus that creates spider "zombies" after it was stumbled ...

Fungus named after David Attenborough turning Irish spiders into 'zombies’ - Findings point to hidden diversity of this class ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Restricting infection to 2 spider families creates a host-specific threat across 1,300 species. Infected orb spiders ...

Over 35 cases of histoplasmosis, a lung infection caused by exposure to the fungus Histoplasma capsulatum, have been confirmed in a three-month period in the Maury and Williamson County area, ...

A fungal disease could soon bring infected cicadas to your backyard. Massospora cicadina is a fungal pathogen that infects only 13- and 17-year periodical cicadas, like this year's Brood XIV.The ...

A team of researchers at West Virginia University in 2019 discovered that Massospora cicadina, a psychedelic fungus that specifically infects periodical cicadas, “contains chemicals similar to those ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A fungus that has killed millions of bats has for the first time been found in bats on both sides of the continental divide in Rocky Mountain National Park, ...

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Restricting infection to 2 spider families creates a host-specific threat across 1,300 species. Infected orb spiders counter-intuitively abandon reclusive hiding spots for lethal, high-visibility ...