daily photo blog by Alicia Millane

Thursday, May 15, 2025

May 15, 2025

Spider silk weighs almost nothing--a thread of silk long enough to loop the Earth would weigh a pound or less--but it is one of the strongest materials on the planet: five times stronger than a strand of steel of the same thickness.

- Katherine Rundell, Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures

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