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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 111,000 spiders.

The web, described in the journal Subterranean Biology on October 17, stretches across 1,140 square feet of the cave’s wall. 

It is not a single sheet of silk, but a vast patchwork of thousands of interconnected, funnel-shaped webs—a rare case of cooperation among spiders that are usually solitary.

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The web was discovered inside Sulfur Cave, a cavern sculpted over time by sulfuric acid formed from the oxidation of hydrogen sulfide in groundwater. The eerie, low-ceilinged passage where the web thrives is a permanently dark, sulfur-rich environment—a place where only the hardiest organisms can survive.

Analysis of the web revealed two species at the heart of the creepy collaboration: Tegenaria domestica, commonly known as the barn funnel weaver or domestic house spider; and Prinerigone vagans, another funnel-web builder.

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Source: https://www.newsweek.com/worlds-biggest-spiderweb-1140ft-found-stuff-nightmares-10995536

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Idk if I want to live much longer on the same planet where this exists. 

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