Photo Credit: iStock A newly identified Amazon spider, the Taczanowskia waska, is gaining attention because its camouflage ...

Scientists have discovered a new Amazonian spider with an astonishing disguise: it looks like a parasitic fungus. The species, Taczanowskia waska, mimics both the appearance and behavior of the fungus ...

A spider species found in the Ecuadorian Amazon has evolved to look almost exactly like a dead spider overtaken by parasitic ...

A newly discovered species of spider has been found working pretty hard to convince prospective prey in the Amazon that it’s already safely dead. The result is a creature that looks a lot like the ...

A new spider discovered in the Amazon disguises itself as a parasitic fungus - similar to the plot of the hit video game and ...

A newly discovered species of spider in the Ecuadorean Amazon mimics a pathogen, known as a zombie fungus, to protect itself. By Alexa Robles-Gil Alexander Bentley, a herpetologist, often leads ...

Scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, formally named 125 plants and 65 fungi in 2025, including a zombie fungus that parasitizes Brazilian spiders, a bloodstained orchid from Ecuador, and a ...