A colossal spider web, potentially the world's largest, has been discovered in a cave on the Albanian-Greek border. This massive communal web, spanning 106 square meters, houses over 111,000 spiders ...

Spider silk is a protein fiber that forms tough, crystal-like sheets. A spider makes several silk types in different glands, then pulls a liquid mixture through microscopic spigots on the spinnerets, ...

What is thought to be the world's largest-known spider's web, housing tens of thousands of arachnids, has been discovered in a cave on the Albanian-Greek border. After researchers published their ...

A pitch-black cave in the Balkans is home to what researchers say is a singular work of cooperation by two usually-hostile species of spider. By Adeel Hassan Even in a pitch-black cave, what appears ...

The colony was located on the Greece-Albania border in Europe Cover Images via AP Images The world's largest spider web has been discovered in an underwater cave on the border of Greece and Albania in ...

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 ...

Sulfur caves are among the most extreme habitats on Earth. They are completely dark and filled with hydrogen sulfide gas, which is toxic to most life-forms. Inside, species’ survival depends on ...

Every arachnophobe's worst nightmare has come true – scientists have uncovered a massive spider web covering 1,140 square feet and housing 110,000 eight-legged residents. Researchers discovered the ...

Arachnophobes beware: Scientists have discovered the world’s largest spider web in a pitch-black cave along the Albanian-Greek border. This “extraordinary” — and frankly horrifying — web stretches a ...

Deep underground in a dark, sulfuric cave on the border between Albania and Greece, scientists have made an incredible discovery – a giant communal spider web spanning more than 100 square meters ...

After a brief foray into creatures big, flashy, and famous, we must return to form and focus on the spineless, creepy, and crawling. Today we're shining a spotlight on one of the most loathèd ...

Arachnophobes look away now. Deep inside a pitch-black cave straddling the Albanian-Greek border, researchers have uncovered what may be the largest spider web ever recorded—teeming with more than 111 ...