The zombie fungus is real but not nearly as deadly. In the real world, Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, otherwise known as ...

Much like the well-documented Ophiocordyceps fungi that infect ants, this new species appears to control its hosts' movements before their death. The infected spiders leave their usual webbed ...

These normally reclusive spiders had left their lairs or webs and migrated to die in exposed situations: essentially, mirroring the behaviour of ants infected by fungi of the genus Ophiocordyceps ...