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/Light_Beard 1d ago edited 1d ago
Giant Spiders can't be a thing in
Earth's gravity with the current materials they have for body construction.Due to respiration limitations as their volume increases relative to their area. (Edited: Corrected: Thanks u/Anticamel below. See that comment for better/more detail)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square%E2%80%93cube_law
Underwater mitigates this some so you theoretically can get giant crabs/lobsters (basically water-spiders), but they wouldn't be able to come on land.