Spiders infected with a brain-controlling fungus have been discovered in a Fermanagh cave.

So-called "zombie spiders" have been discovered in a cave between Co Cavan and Co Fermanagh. They were found by speleologist ...

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 ...

The discovery of so-called ‘zombie spiders’ in a network of caves that lie beneath an Irish prison has caught the attention ...

Ireland is the only place where a unique fungus has been found that infects reclusive spiders in dark caves and turns them ...

From time to time it’s possible to visualise places so clearly in your mind’s eye that you feel like you’re actually there.

The spiders, found within the White Father Caves under Cavan and Fermanagh, are infected with a fungus that effectively turns them into 'zombies' ...

The cave-dwelling spiders found scurrying around the White Father Caves, which lie beneath Cavan and Fermanagh, were found to be infected with a form of fungus dubbed Gibellula attenboroughii ...

From time to time it’s possible to visualise places so clearly in your mind’s eye that you feel like you’re actually there. Perhaps that ...

I never have a lie in and will be up at 6am every day. I like to lead an active life but I also like to read a few pages of ...

including the Whitefathers' Caves on the Fermanagh/Cavan border. Named after Sir David Attenborough, Gibellula attenboroughii was first discovered in County Down during the filming of BBC ...