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00:00Almost 200 new plants and fungi were named new to science last year.

00:06Conservationists warn that many are already threatened with extinction.

00:10The Royal Botanic Gardens in London has revealed its top 10 species that were described in 2025.

00:17A killer fungus found in the Atlantic rainforest of Brazil has become quite popular

00:22because of the series The Last of Us, in which a fungus turns humans into zombies, this researcher says.

00:28It's just that in nature, in real life, this fungus has the capacity of infecting insects

00:33and basically controlling their nervous system and then effectively making them zombies, right?

00:40So these new species we found, as it happens, it parasitizes spiders, what we call trapdoor spiders.

00:46This new species found in Ecuador, known as blood-stained orchid,

00:50is remarkable for its way of achieving pollination and reproduction.

00:53This flower imitates a female fly, so it makes the male fly think that it's a female

01:00and then the fly comes and copulates with it.

01:03Other species that made it to the top 10 include the fire demon flower,

01:08a critically endangered snowdrop and the caterpillar orchids.

01:11This is a female.

01:12So this is a female species.

Scientists named 190 new plants and fungi species in 2025 – including gruesome spider-killing fungus

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