Scientists in Romania may have uncovered every arachnophobe’s worst nightmare after stumbling upon what they describe as the “world’s biggest spider web." The discovery, published in the journal Subterranean Biology, and the video of the find. has gone viral for its sheer scale and density.

Researchers said the colossal web was home to around 111,000 spiders, mostly from two rival species that seemed to coexist peacefully. According to LiveScience, which first reported the finding, the web stretched along the walls of a tight, low-roofed tunnel deep inside a sulfur-rich cave, in a permanently dark zone close to the cavern’s mouth.

The sprawling colony consisted of thousands of interconnected funnel webs, which the researchers likened to a “silky tent city." They believe it could be the l

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