This morning I came across a list of the top 10 newly discovered species of 2011 while looking at Nature's news blog (which is pretty great, btw). Darwin's bark spider is first up, making the list because they can build a web up to 25 meters long (82.029974 feet, duh! ...yeah, definitely had to look that up) out of a silk that has been tested to be “the toughest biological material ever studied, over ten times stronger than a similarly-sized piece of Kevlar”. Which is awesome.
Also, just found this Ted talk about the possibilities of silk as a useful, sustainable material for several different innovations. This seems exciting to me!
Thought I would share.
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