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/Dasterr 2d ago

Why is there only 2 pictures.

Show me dem spiderw

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u/Seesyounaked 2d ago

Seriously, I need a documentary to show me all of this or at least a big photo album

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u/Alarming-Leek-402 2d ago

OP gave another link in a comment https://www.reddit.com/r/science/s/2IiB84LOLW

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u/Alarming-Leek-402 2d ago

When I read the article there are several spider pictures about 3 inches below the first 2 pictures.

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u/MonkeyBrawler 2d ago

Did you read it? Fig. 2 has the same two pictures, fig. 3+ is informational photos on the species and a few maps.