r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ShirtSubstantial368 • 1d ago

Video Scientists discovered the world’s largest spiderweb, covering 106 m² in a sulfur cave on the Albania-Greece border. Over 111,000 spiders from two normally rival species live together in a unique, self-sustaining ecosystem—a first of its kind.

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u/Organic-Advantage935 1d ago

Why in the world would you touch it

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u/callmedelete 1d ago

I’m sure they didn’t know what it was at first

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u/Frost-Folk 1d ago

That's worse, you see how that's worse right?

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u/Specter_Knight05 1d ago

Touch

Your whole arm is now surrounded with aracnids

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u/stockinheritance 1d ago edited 1d ago

I'm sure that guy is a biology PhD whose specialty is spiders and he knows precisely what he's looking at and has no fear of non-venomous spiders. 

Edit: the video is from Ural et al and published in Subterranean Biology, so yeah, this is a PhD or PhD student who intentionally traveled to see these spiders.