Besides being dark and mysterious, crows are extremely intelligent birds. So smart, in fact, that it might be a little bit scary. Even though their brains are the size of a human thumb, their ...

A new fungus, Gibellula attenboroughii, was discovered on spiders in Irish caves. It changes their behavior, similar to ...

Frightening!A novel fungus that turns its hosts into ‘zombies’ has been found in spiders in Ireland.Spiders located in several ...

Scientists identified a new fungus, Gibellula attenboroughii, infecting cave spiders in Ireland. The fungus manipulates ...

Symbiotic relationships between species are both common and incredible, including those between ants and these four insects, ...

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 new species of parasitic fungus has been discovered turning orb-weaving spiders into zombies in the British Isles.

The newly-described fungus infects normally reclusive cave-dwelling spiders in Cavan and Fermanagh and makes them makes them head to exposed sites, where they die, to help spread fungal spores ...

It was found to display the creepy properties seen in zombie-ant fungi, insect-pathogenic fungi that infect and manipulate ...

While filming a documentary in Northern Ireland, a team of scientists discovered a new fungus that appears to manipulate ...

Dr. Harry Evans, Emeritus Fellow at CAB International, led scientists—including from the Natural History Museum of Denmark ...