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Monday, 06 January 2014

Weird Amazon 'Web' Structures Built By Spiders, Scientists Discover (VIDEO)

Troy Alexander/Tambopata Research Center A close-up of the structure. About six months ago, a graduate student at the Georgia Institute of Technology first spotted a mysterious web unlike anything scientists had seen before: Each one of the weird webs was a tiny sphere surrounded by a circular fence less than an inch (2 centimeters) in diameter. The student, Troy Alexander, found the mysterious formation underneath a tarp at the Tambopata Research Center in Peru and had no idea what it was, so...

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