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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 ...

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

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

When spiders self-amputate two of their legs, they quickly adjust their running gait so they can return to full speed ...

Scientists have discovered a fungal species that infects spiders and appears to control their behavior, compelling them to leave their usual hiding places before succumbing to the deadly infection.

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