Zombie horror series The Last of Us might feel a little more real after you learn about a fungus that infects cave spiders ...

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 ...

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

While exploring a cavernous, mud-lined lava tube in Koloa late last year, two Hawai’i scientists came across cave dwellers that have not been seen in 30 years: baby spiders of the endangered and ...

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

A new fungus that infects cave spiders and turns them into "zombies" was discovered in a Victorian gunpowder store at Castle Espie in Northern Ireland during filming for a TV show.

The cave dweller injects the venom produced in its ... especially those produced by spiders: several amino acids (cysteines) ...

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 ...

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.