{"id":286803,"date":"2025-11-16T13:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T13:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/286803\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T13:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T13:20:08","slug":"researchers-discover-giant-spider-megacity-in-cave-on-albania-greece-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/286803\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers discover giant spider \u2018Megacity\u2019 in cave on Albania-Greece border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Researchers have discovered a vast spider \u201cmegacity\u201d inside Sulfur Cave, a cavern on the Albania-Greece border, according to the journal Subterranean Biology.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The colony, spanning nearly 110 square meters, is home to about 69,000 Tegenaria domestica and 42,000 Prinerigone vagans spiders living in a single interconnected web.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Scientists say the web could be the largest of its kind ever recorded, thriving in a dark, humid ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The footage was filmed by Istv\u00e1n Ur\u00e1k, with photographs by Czech cave explorer Marek Audy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Researchers have discovered a vast spider \u201cmegacity\u201d inside Sulfur Cave, a cavern on the Albania-Greece border, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[130115,49,48,10571,66,130114,323],"class_list":{"0":"post-286803","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-albania-greece","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-researchers","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-tegenaria-domestica","14":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}