Australian Spider's Silk Secret Tapped (IMAGE)

University of Melbourne

Australian Spider's Silk Secret Tapped

Caption

The basket-web spider in its natural form with its unique lobster pot web and silk, which has now been revealed as uniquely robust.

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Professor Mark Elgar, the University of Melbourne

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