In a dank cave below the Albanian-Greek border, scientists have uncovered a spider web that’s technically big enough to catch a whale. Stretching 106 square meters (1,140 square feet), the spindly structure is likely to be the biggest web of its kind ever found. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

You may (or may not) be pleased to hear that this is not the work of a single creature. The researchers looked at the density of arachnids in the colony and estimated it was formed of roughly 111,000 spiders . It wasn’t just made by a single species, either.

Genetic samples taken from the web suggested it was home to around 69,000 domestic house spiders (aka barn funnel weavers) and more than 42,000 Prinerigone vagans . The

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