Zombie horror series The Last of Us might feel a little more real after you learn about a fungus that infects cave spiders ...

Scientists have discovered a fungal species that infects spiders and appears to control their behavior, compelling them to leave their usual hiding places before succumbing to the deadly infection.

Some fungi are able to reproduce both sexually and asexually. Fungi reproduce using spores which they release into the environment. A new fungus will grow from the spore. The Coprinus cinereus ...

Researchers have found a new species of fungi that infects spiders turning them into 'zombies' in Ireland and Northern ...

On Thursday, Dr. Patricia "Patty" Ononiwu Kaishian joined "TMZ Live" for an interview to explain more about her research discoveries on same-sex reproduction in fungi and plants. Kaishian told ...

The work could help us better understand the evolution of sexual reproduction as well as showcases the increasing power of genome sequencing. While scientists have long suspected that certain species ...

Kobe University researcher has uncovered the purpose of the structure that inspired its name—revealing a novel mechanism by ...

Fungi produce molecules that humans still can’t reproduce in a lab, and we’re only beginning to scrape the surface of what we can learn from them. Here are a few things we found out about the ...

More than 130 years after a fungus-eating orchid species was discovered, the purpose of its mysterious appendage has been ...