"Zombie spiders" and Darwin's HMS Beagle collection are among the fungi being digitally archived by scientists at the Royal ...

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Sir David Attenborough thereby coined this disease struck creature as the Gibellula attenboroughii, a disease where the fungus manipulates the spiders' behaviours before killing them, causing the ...

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Among the species digitised by the Kew team is Gibellula attenboroughii – or David Attenborough’s “zombie fungus” – named after first being spotted on an episode of BBC’s Winterwatch in 2021, having ...