The deadly Ophiocordyceps unilateralis spreads by sending toxic spores blooming from the dead ant’s head. Ant (scientific name: Camponotus atriceps) infected with fungus (scientific name: ...

A fungus (plural: fungi) is a type of eukaryotic organism belonging to the kingdom Fungi, alongside plants, animals, protozoa, and monera. Fungi are incredibly diverse, with commonly encountered forms ...

Biggest Funnel Web Spider Ever Found Is Named After The Hemsworth Brothers Infected spiders would hang on the roof or walls of the caves, leaving their lairs or webs and migrating to die in exposed ...

A fungus named in honour of Sir David Attenborough has been found infecting and manipulating spiders in a Northern Ireland cave turning them into The Last of Us-style “zombies”. Researchers, including ...

HBO’s adaption of The Last of Us, which aired last year, brought fungi’s pathogenic nature to center stage. The silver screen reputation isn’t without due cause: Fungal infections from invasive ...

Not every biologist is fortunate enough to discover two new species on the very campus where they teach, but Florida Gulf Coast University professor and researcher William Sanders did just that ...

Ari Berkowitz receives funding from the Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology and has received funding from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of ...

Fungi-eating orchids were found for the first time to offer their flowers to fungi-eating fruit flies in exchange for pollination, which is the first evidence for nursery pollination in orchids. This ...

The Pro1 protein helps express mating-related genes in different species of fungi. But what happens when Pro1 malfunctions? Researchers from the Tokyo University of Science have found that mutations ...