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Researchers say well over 100,000 spiders from two different species coexist in this remarkable underground metropolis for arachnids

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Researchers have discovered what could be the world’s largest known spider’s web, an arachnid “megacity” teeming with tens of thousands of the insects in a cave on the Albania-Greece border.