If you are bitten by a large, black spider in Australia, the medical advice is to treat is as an emergency. However, not all ...

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

In this week’s Science for All newsletter, Priyali Prakash writes about a newly discovered type of fungus that turns spiders ...

A newly discovered species of fungus takes control of cave-dwelling spiders in Ireland and Northern Ireland, similar to the ...

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

Spiders are some of the most diverse creatures on Earth. While they can be frightening, most of them are harmless and ...

Nicola Toki from Forest & Bird educates us on the intertidal spider, found around the world in the genus Desis, including one ...

There are some pretty weird relationships in the animal world. Some parasites exist only in the eyes of the world’s oldest sharks, while researchers have been researching fungus that survives by ...

Frightening!A novel fungus that turns its hosts into ‘zombies’ has been found in spiders in the White Father’s Caves ...

Oh what a tangled web we weave when the multiverse becomes part of Spider-Man canon. The Spider-Man film franchise started simply enough, with 2002’s “Spider-Man.” Fast forward 20 years and ...

Researchers collected samples of the infected spiders and conducted DNA analysis, confirming that they had discovered a completely new species of fungus. Initially, it was named Gibellula bangbangus, ...