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Scientists have discovered a never-before-seen mind-controlling fungus that creates spider "zombies" after it was stumbled upon in a Victorian gunpowder store on the grounds of a destroyed Irish ...

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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 into "zombies". Thankfully, so far, it's only been found in spiders ...

Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage. Tim Fogg walked past the zombie spider fungus many times over the years before he learned what it actually was. Fogg would often ...

A study investigated the identity of the fungus found on a spider during the filming of the BBC Winterwatch series in Northern Ireland. It was found to display the creepy properties seen in zombie ...

(CNN) — Scientists in Europe have identified a previously unknown species of fungus that turns cave spiders into “zombies.” The fungus lures them out of their webs before instigating an ...