Now, he's a co-author of a study that identifies those globs as a newly discovered species of fungus that takes control of spiders, essentially turning them into zombies, and marches them to their ...

The new fungus species Gibellula attenboroughii forces reclusive cave spiders to exposed areas, likely to benefit spore dispersal.

In the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, a rare fungus grows inside dead caterpillars ... and other severe weather. Cell phone signals and other methods of communication are limited or nonexistent ...

The bacterial resident produces poison, which the fungus uses to infect rice plants; both partners benefit by absorbing nutrients from the dead and dying plant cells. Over generations, the pair ...

DNA analysis reveals the big, flightless moa birds ate — and pooped out — 13 kinds of fungi, including ones crucial for New Zealand’s forest ecosystem.

Doctors will then examine the vaginal walls and cervix for signs of infection, taking cells from the vagina ... a skin infection caused by a fungus that lives on dead tissues, such as the skin ...

Researchers have used artificial intelligence to identify 25 new protein compounds that can kill bacteria and fungi, ...

This discovery, published in Cell Reports, highlights how seemingly ... They believed the many shapes not seen in real fungi ...