Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage than loading CBC Lite story pages. When Alexander Bentley poked a mass covered in what appeared to be a deadly parasitic fungus during ...

13:59, Wed, Feb 25, 2026 Updated: 15:09, Wed, Feb 25, 2026 A "zombie" fungus made famous by The Last of Us video game franchise has been discovered in the Amazon, infecting a "goliath" spider. In a ...

Have you ever noticed that spiders curl up when they die? There’s a scientific reason for that. While humans use muscles for both extension and contraction, spiders use muscles to pull legs in but ...

Discover the story of Marvel's Zombie event that started back in 2005 ! @stellalasaurus breaks down the event! From what started the zombie apocalypse, to the retconning that's happened along the way!

What If...? spin-off Marvel Zombies was once planned to be a movie, until its showrunner was told of Sony's rules around featuring the character of Spider-Man. More ...

This year has seen plenty of exciting firsts come to fruition for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, from the introduction of Harrison Ford's Red Hulk in Captain America: Brave New World, to the ...

A new parasitic fungus is taking over spiders’ populations and those infected are called “Zombie Spiders”. Spiders infected by fungus are spreading all over the world. The rise of fungus-infected ...

The RSPCA rescues four of the arachnids after finding dozens of others dead in the Salford flat. The public antivenom programme saving lives in a place where, the joke goes, everything wants to kill ...

“Zombie spiders” and Darwin’s HMS Beagle collection are among the fungi being digitally archived by scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Kew’s Fungarium, an archive beneath the west London ...