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Ioannis Karagiorgas

World's biggest spiderweb home to more than 110,000 spiders discovered on the Albanian-Greek border

Researchers have discovered more than 111,000 spiders thriving in what appears to be the world's largest spider web, deep inside a pitch-black cave on the Albanian-Greek border.

The "extraordinary" colony consists of a colossal web in a permanently dark zone of the cave, according to a study published 17 October in the journal Subterranean Biology.

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