A terrifying new species of parasitic wasp that transforms its victims into suicidal zombies has been found in the Amazon. The nightmare bug turns spiders into helpless drones who abandon their own ...

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Watching fights between creatures in the wild can be an interesting insight into how they attack opponents and defend themselves. It says a lot about their evolution and how they have developed into ...

Zombies are real – at least, in the insect world. The most famous example is a fungus that controls the minds and bodies of ants to help itself reproduce, but it's not the only thing to use the morbid ...

Setting off a startling chain of events, a parasitoid wasp can force a spider to weave a special web to suspend the wasp pupa just before it finishes killing its spider host. William Eberhard, staff ...

A nightmarish scene involving a wasp carrying a giant spider in Australia has taken social media by storm. The viral pic of the creepy-crawly incident snapped in Bronte, Sydney depicts a fiery orange ...

A common expression foreshadowing the topic of this discussion might be, “What goes around, comes around." For instance, if spiders are the worst nightmares of flies, then, to go around, wasps must ...

Parasitoid wasps take control of spider minds to get them to do their bidding, turning them into obedient zombie workers. New research takes a closer look at the making of the spider zombies to figure ...

That might surprise you, as there isn’t a huge body count in the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies…until Avengers: Infinity War that is, but even then it was Thanos who did it and not a hero. When you ...