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Scientists have discovered a fungus that turns spiders into “zombies,” luring the arachnids out of their lairs before killing ...

Thanks to science, the deadliest spider in the world revealed a long-held secret that could have implications for those who ...

Jumping spiders—one of the largest spider families—get their name from the extraordinary jumps they make to hunt prey, to ...

Generally, spiders want to avoid humans and are much more scared of us than vice versa, meaning they will only bite as a ...

They’re venomous cannibals, hiding in our homes. With something like fifteen quadrillion spiders around, we can’t escape them ...

Some spiders hunt and kill snakes up to 30 times their size. A study revealed 319 cases of such incidents involving over 40 ...

Huang Ruo watched his kids on Halloween during the coronavirus pandemic his son dressed as Spider-Man and Batman, his ...

That makes it the most venomous snake in the world. Fortunately, it is reclusive and not very ... resist the urge to pet this ...

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

The death cap mushroom is considered the most poisonous among the family of edible fungus humans love to eat. Originally native to Europe, but now spread to other parts of the world, the death cap ...

A fungus named in honour of David Attenborough has been found infecting and manipulating spiders in an Irish cave, turning them into The Last of Us-style zombies. Researchers found that the fungi ...