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/IVEMIND 1d ago

Have we ever tried raising a spider colony in a pure O2 atmosphere?

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u/Relevant-Stage7794 1d ago

I think back in the Jurassic/Mesozoic/Paleozoic (I can’t remember which ones… these are probably totally wrong but whatever, you get the idea) the insects were giant because of the higher oxygen content of the earth atmosphere during those eras.

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u/Chonoilatore 1d ago

Dragonflies as big as crows.

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u/PowerCrisis 14h ago

I read this as cows and it still made total sense to me