At age 75, Vadevino Alano keeps up a brisk pace as he strides through the forest on the way to the Armadillo’s Den — a spectacular cave in southern Brazil. When he reaches the cave’s opening, Alano is ...

The world’s largest agricultural boom is transforming a vast savanna of hidden wonders. Here’s what happens when progress ...

Deep below the surface of a river in northern Brazil, a “shy” creature tucked its “armored” body into a rocky crevice. Divers ...

It's the stuff of nightmares - or even the hit TV show and video game The Last of Us: a novel fungus that turns its hosts ...

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

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

Dr. Harry Evans, Emeritus Fellow at CAB International, led scientists—including from the Natural History Museum of Denmark ...

Giulia Panchoni Righetto, 26, was with her boyfriend and their three friends yesterday afternoon when the São Francisco ...

Scientists identified a new fungus, Gibellula attenboroughii, infecting cave spiders in Ireland. The fungus manipulates ...

Their warnings intensified after a tragic incident in 2022 saw a large piece of ice fall from the cave’s ceiling, killing a Brazilian tourist. Heartbreaking footage now reveals what remains of ...

Subsequently, the spider host was identified as the orb-weaving cave spider, Metellina merianae ... reported from the Atlantic rainforest of Brazil. Such manipulation of the host in order to ...