European Cave Spiders Produce Super-Stretchy Silk
European cave spiders (Meta menardi) protect their growing offspring using the most stretchable egg sac silk ever found. Source: Wired - Discipline: Evolution...
Source: LabSpaces - Thursday, 9 February
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