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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 ...

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You might be familiar with the TV show The Last of Us, where people turn into vicious zombies after being infected by a fungus. These sci-fi monster seems to have now entered the real world, as ...

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 ...

The newly-described fungus has drawn “normally reclusive” spiders out of their lairs or webs to die in exposed locations in White Fathers Cave, which lies beneath counties Cavan and Fermanagh.

A new study explains that the fluffy white fungus likely uses chemical signals to direct cave spiders out of their lairs and into the open. The fungus then kills the spiders and uses the corpses ...

“In all instances, the infected spiders had moved from their concealed lairs or webs and died exposed on the cave roof or wall and the store ceiling,” scientists wrote. This behaviour mirrors ...