The results of the new study, published last month in the journal Subterranean Biology, spread rapidly online due to the striking images of the giant 1,140-square-foot spider web, a carpet-thick sprawl that stretches along a narrow passage wall inside Sulfur Cave, which extends into Albania from its entrance in Greece. But the most surprising thing about the spider colony — which boasts an estimated 110,000 spiders — had less to do with its enormity and more to do with what scientists found inside the huge mass of funnel-shaped webs. Scientists say it could offer clues into the natural world.