World News @lemmy.world Allah @lemmy.world 1mo ago

'Zombie' spiders infected by never-before-seen fungus discovered on grounds of destroyed Irish castle

www.livescience.com 'Zombie' spiders infected by never-before-seen fungus discovered on grounds of destroyed Irish castle

A new fungus that infects cave spiders and turns them into "zombies" was discovered in a Victorian gunpowder store at Castle Espie in Northern Ireland during filming for a TV show.

UK Nature and Environment @feddit.uk GreyShuck @feddit.uk 1mo ago

www.livescience.com /animals/spiders/zombie-spiders-infected-by-never-before-seen-fungus-discovered-on-grounds-of-destroyed-irish-castle

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Biology @mander.xyz cm0002 @lemmy.world 1mo ago

'Zombie' spiders infected by never-before-seen fungus discovered on grounds of destroyed Irish castle

www.livescience.com /animals/spiders/zombie-spiders-infected-by-never-before-seen-fungus-discovered-on-grounds-of-destroyed-irish-castle

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He’s only been in office for a few weeks, how the hell has he started a fungal zombie apocalypse already?!
- Nah, that has been going on for a long time. It's just one more species of cordycipitaceae they discovered.
  
  Yeah but my concern is Ireland is not south America. Global climate change it screwing us hard. Unless this is some random occurrence.
- god is giving us a sign, it's time to protest
  
  50501
  
  Do I even want to look up that number sequence?
Zombie fungus isn't the solution we want to the world's problems, but it may be the solution we need.
- definitely the one we deserve
- I'm not convinced certain world leaders are not infected.
Something-something Last of us...
Couple thousand more years of evolution about to make fungus scary as fucc
One of the world's scariest things to me.

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