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.

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Researchers collected samples of the infected spiders and conducted DNA analysis, confirming that they had discovered a ...

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

The species (Gibellula attenboroughii) forces reclusive arachnids into exposed areas, likely to benefit the dispersal of spores ... s grotesque fungal guest was a new species, Araújo and ...

While filming a TV documentary inside an old Victorian gunpowder store in Northern Ireland, scientists made an intriguing ...

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Ireland is the only place where a unique fungus has been found that infects reclusive spiders in dark caves and turns them ...