The “extra touches” to intricate webs - known as stabilimenta - enable the eight-legged hunters to find their next meal.

Webs can be decorated with decoys, fine-tuned like guitars—and hold secrets about evolution. A Cyclosa spider is camouflaged on a web with debris attached to make itself less visible at the Los Amigos ...

In a narrow passage deep inside an underground cavern between Albania and Greece, scientists pushed through waist-deep black water and clung to ropes to make a startling discovery. In the beams of ...

Scientists have discovered a giant spider web spanning about half the size of a tennis court and with some 111,000 spiders in a cave on the border between Greece and Albania. The web in the "Sulfur ...

Serban Sarbu thought he’d seen it all — until he stepped into a pitch-dark cave that straddles the border between Albania and Greece. In what's called Sulfur Cave, Sarbu and a team of researchers ...

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 ...

Scientists in Romania have discovered what could be the largest spider web ever documented, an enormous, interconnected network spanning more than 1,100 square feet inside a sulfur cave on the ...

A massive 1,140 sq ft spider web was found in Sulphur Cave (Albania/Greece) hosting 111,000 spiders from two species, *Tegenaria domestica* and *Prinerigone vagans*. Scientists found that the two ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Scientists have discovered 100,000 spiders living in what could be the biggest spider's web in the world. The community is made up of two species of spider which scientists previously didn't think ...