A hiker poked what he thought was a zombie fungus deep in the Amazon, and it crawled away. A newly discovered Amazon spider has evolved one of nature’s most unsettling disguises: it mimics a parasitic fungus that kills and zombifies its hosts. The find, published in the journal Zootaxa, marks the first documented case of an arachnid mimick... [4718 chars]
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