Kew Gardens has revealed the strangest plant and fungi discoveries new to science in 2025 – but some are already nearly ...

Scientists from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and their international partners, reveal today their pick of the top 10 ...

As if something out of a horror movie, a fungus infects spiders and turns them into zombies, causing them to act erratically ...

The year's top paleontological wonders ranged from a 540-million-year-old penis worm to a decades-old rodent impression.

Experts say fungi cannot infect humans like in The Last of Us, though climate change could alter risks. Business jet that crashed in Michigan was flown after pilots chose not to wait for a test pilot, ...

A Carolina leaf-roller cricket infected with Cordyceps, the so-called “zombie fungus,” found at Betley Woods at Glacier’s End in southern Johnson County during the summer. The fungus, which takes over ...

These days we’re craving relief from the constant stream of news reports that’s been traumatizing us for some time now. Who can make sense of all the frightening and depressing national and world ...

An old storm drain in Minneapolis. A damp cottage in Ontario. Underneath a house in New Zealand. In everyday encounters around the globe, people are getting a fright by a Halloween-worthy sight: the ...

MORGANTOWN, W.V. – Murder hornets have had their time in the spotlight. Now, scientists say they've discovered “zombie cicadas.” It's a playful name from researchers at West Virginia University, who ...

From being the main antagonist of a major video game and now television franchise, zombie fungus like cordyceps have quickly become a popular point of scientific intrigue. However, these interesting ...

Scientists have discovered two new species of ancient parasitic fungi preserved in amber dating back 99 million years. The fungi were growing out of the bodies of host insects that became trapped in ...

Scientists have discovered two new species of ancient parasitic fungi preserved in amber dating back 99 million years. The fungi were growing out of the bodies of host insects that became trapped in ...