Newly discovered fungal zombie spiders named for Sir David Attenborough

A group of scientists recently found something new and terrifying in a cave in the North of Ireland — the fuzzy corpse of a zombified spider, infected with a mind-controlling fungus not unlike the cordyceps strain that hijacks ants and leads them to their deaths. — Read the rest

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