Scientists exploring a cave in Albania discover thousands of arachnids in world's largest-known spiderweb

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00:00In 2025, we went on the expeditions inside the Sulfur cave and we discovered, let's say,

00:28how this mystery existed in there. We made all the examinations, got samples, analyzed in the

00:34sterile microscopes and also DNA. They are done from these samples and the DNA is interesting

00:41because they revealed that the species which live inside the cave is different from the one

00:48which lives outside the cave. So it's the same species but different DNA. This makes that in the

00:55future it will be an isolation of these species inside the cave.

01:04Well, we don't know it exactly but let's say that since the cave existed because they have all the

01:13possible conditions to survive there and to live there due to these chemo-autotrophic

01:19processes that happens inside the cave.

01:25So there is some flexibility in some species but with the species that there's reports of in this

01:42paper that are found to live in a massive colony together, that is very unusual for

01:47those particular species that is not really reported anywhere else.

01:55So there is some unusual amusement stories but you think there will is still

01:58have to be aforementioned?

01:59So let's just say I can't change to that and I, we don't know where is the

02:02species here where I'mβαians from the cave, I can just get it from a dry

02:04activity. I mean, I am sure I will get them from a dry amount of time the

02:13manure that we have unused to get or not to do this.

02:16So