Thursday, September 16, 2010

Things We Learned from the BBC Today- Big Spider Web Found in Madagascar




Alas, we couldn't find the impressive image of the some 50-foot long spider's web found by scientists on a riverbed in the southest African nation of Madagascar, but we did find this image which we can also use as an homage to Stan Lee (the creator of the comic book character "Spiderman").


The web was found by a team of scientists, according to the BBC, which included Ingi Agnarsson who told the media outlet the following after seeing the spectacle of nature for himself:

"Some of the webs qualify, to be to the best of our knowledge, as the largest spider webs ever documented."

The scientists have also indicated that the web is the product of a Darwin's bark spider, which is a recently discovered spider species.

The largest spider web found in the United States was in Texas in 2007. I imagine it did nothing to help cure anyone's arachnophobia.

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