Worlds largest spider web!

[syndicate]

Cant believe this wasn't posted yet!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_9001000/9001866.stm
Amazing stuff!
-Chris

 

[robd]

Wow, that's awesome.

 

[Tokendog]

That's crazy! It's cool that they are still finding new species, unfortunately, at the same time species that we know about are going extinct every single day.

 

[NevularScorpion]

WOW that is so cool

 

[Bastian Drolshagen]

paper: KUNTNER, M. & I. AGNARSSON 2010: Web gigantism in Darwin’s bark spider, a new species from Madagascar (Araneidae: Caerostris). J. Arachnol. 38: 346-356.

http://www.americanarachnology.org/JoA_free/JoA_v38_n2/arac-38-02-346.pdf

Have fun reading

 

[zonbonzovi]

Looks like a turd with legs:

http://giantspiders.com/Caerostris_sp.html

Probably not Caerostris darwini, but I don't imagine that they're too dissimilar.

 

[TheTyro]

That is crazy awesome!

 

[Travis K]

paper: KUNTNER, M. & I. AGNARSSON 2010: Web gigantism in Darwin’s bark spider, a new species from Madagascar (Araneidae: Caerostris). J. Arachnol. 38: 346-356.

http://www.americanarachnology.org/JoA_free/JoA_v38_n2/arac-38-02-346.pdf

Have fun reading

THank you very much for posting that.