What do a golf ball, a parasitised tarantula and Charles Darwin have in common ... before being thoroughly examined by an international team of scientists. The fungus belongs to a group of so-called ...

From the rarest mushrooms collected within remote jungles to fungi-parasitised tarantulas and historically fascinating ... specimens that are used to make clear links between the fungus as a living ...

The hit TV series, ‘The Last of Us’, has captured the world’s imagination with its terrifying story of a zombie apocalypse caused by a mind-controlling fungus. In the show, a mutated fungus ...

Making a discovery with the potential for innovative applications in pharmaceutical development, a West Virginia University ...

Renowned cicada expert Gene Kritsky says the fungal disease takes a while to manifest and grow inside of cicadas, who typically have a six-week lifespan above ground. Typically, cicadas will see the ...

However, this year, many will be extra horny thanks to the spread of a creepy, “The Last Of Us”-esque zombie fungus. “Nature is stranger than any science fiction that’s ever been written ...

"Zombie spiders" and Darwin's HMS Beagle collection ... Paul Figg/RBG Kew/PA Wire Stereum hirsutum, a fungus collected at around 15,000 ft during an Everest expedition in 1953 Operations manager ...

Fungus and cicada, zombifier and zombie: their relationship is at least 100 million years old, and scientists are still piecing together how it works, says Matt Kasson, a mycologist at West ...

A captive-bred Mexican fireleg tarantula is seen up close outside Tarantulas of Mexico, a breeding facility in the northwestern state of Jalisco. Firelegs and other species of tarantulas are ...

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 ...

David Attenborough’s ‘zombie fungus’ was first spotted on an episode of BBC’s Winterwatch (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew/Tim Fogg/PA) “Zombie spiders” and Darwin’s HMS Beagle collection ...

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 ...