The magnificent discovery was first made in 2022, but has only recently been examined. Scientists discovered the world's largest spider web in a cave. Approximately 512 spider species inhabit the web.

The world's largest spider web has been discovered in an underwater cave on the border of Greece and Albania in Europe The web spans an areas of 1,076.4 square feet The web houses a colony of ...

Researchers have found what may be the world’s largest spider web in an underwater cave on the Greece-Albania border. The massive web covers 1,076.4 square feet along Sulfur Cave’s wall and houses ...

This is the first evidence of colonial behaviour in two common spider species and probably represents the largest spider web in the world. Researchers have discovered more than 111,000 spiders ...

Researchers have discovered what could be the largest spider web ever, found in a cave straddling the Greek-Albanian border, a paper published in October revealed. After years of studies, the ...

ARACHNOPHOBES, look away now – what might be the world’s biggest spider web has been found. Hidden deep inside a pitch-black cave is a mammoth web that houses upwards of 111,000 spiders, researchers ...

For decades, arachnologists debated the actual purpose of stabilimenta, a special thread spiders weave into their webs. Now, Italian researchers have finally cracked the case. They ventured into the ...

A silver Argiope spider in a spiderweb with stabilimenta. Daniel Schwen, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons When imagining a spider web, chances are most people envision a typical spiral, wheel-shaped ...

The long-standing mystery around why spider webs sometimes feature "extra touches" known as stabilimenta has been revisited in a new study which suggests that their wave-propagation effects could help ...

Every year Halloween enthusiasts adorn their homes with synthetic cobwebs. But humans aren’t the only creatures who decorate their abodes. Spiders bedeck their webs with “stabilimenta”—various woven ...