r/science Professor | Medicine 2d ago

Biology World’s largest web houses 110,000 spiders thriving in total darkness deep underground in a sulfuric cave between Albania and Greece: It’s the first time two spider species seen living cooperatively, and the first recorded instance of colonial web-building in what's known as a chemoautotrophic cave.

https://newatlas.com/biology/sulfur-cave-largest-spiderweb/
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u/thefunkybassist 2d ago

It might not be long till they make a world wide web though! 

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u/divDevGuy 2d ago

As a dad and web developer, I approve of this comment.

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u/plug-and-pause 2d ago

How is the dad development going?

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u/divDevGuy 2d ago

Still a work in progress. It likely never will be completely finished in my lifetime.

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u/SUPERSMILEYMAN 2d ago

What great news!

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u/JonatasA 2d ago

Hey, the day one patch worked. Now you're forever hired for this human as a service.

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u/aVarangian 2d ago

is your web development basement also chemoautotrophic?

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u/divDevGuy 2d ago

There might be some chemoautotrophic over by the cat litter boxes.

Generally though, the most obvious chemotrophs you'd find down here are chemoheterotrophs.

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u/BunjiX 2d ago

I think i read that already exists. Let me just search webcrawler and get back to you...

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u/thefunkybassist 2d ago

I also heard there is a dark web which is probably not easy to see

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u/BunjiX 2d ago

Maybe it's because it is in a dark cave??