A BBC documentary crew in Northern Ireland stumbled upon a fungus that hijacks spiders in an arachnid version of “The Last of Us.” ...

Researchers have highlighted a new type of mind-altering parasite that takes over spiders and changes how they act.

There are some pretty weird relationships in the animal world. Some parasites exist only in the eyes of the world’s oldest ...

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

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 ...