达尔文吠蛛的蛛丝和钢筋的强度差不多，但却比钢筋个结实，因为它具备很强大的延展性。
The Darwin’s bark spider's silk "is about the strength of steel but much, much tougher, because it also stretches.
Agnarsson告诉我们，他说这里的护林员曾说过，达尔文吠蛛可以挂在蜘蛛网上像人猿泰山一样来回游荡。
One of the rangers "said the spiders do a Tarzan swing, like they hang down on the silk and swing over, " Agnarsson said.
研究小组发现，尽管这些蛛网有在强度和尺寸点像蜘蛛侠织出的蛛网，但是这些达尔文吠蛛只是用他们来捕食像蜉蝣和蜻蜓这样的小型飞行昆虫。
Despite spinning webs of Spider-Man-like size and strength, the Darwin's bark spider USES them to feed mainly on small fry-insects such as mayflies and dragonflies, the team found.
最新研究表明，这个蜘蛛网是用世界上已知的最结实的生物材料编织而成的，它是达尔文吠蛛这一新的蜘蛛种类的产物。这使其成为了当今世界最大的蜘蛛网。
Made of the world's strongest known biological material, the web is the product of a new species, the Darwin's bark spider, which makes the world's largest webs of any single spider, new studies say.
波多黎各大学的动物学家IngiAgnarsson和其同事发现了由达尔文吠蛛结出的宽达82英尺(约合25米)的蜘蛛网，这相当于两辆城市大巴的长度。
Zoologist Ingi Agnarsson and colleagues have found Darwin's bark spider webs as wide as 82 feet (25 meters) -about as long as two city buses.
但是，在Agnarsson团队发现这些蜘蛛以前科学家对达尔文吠蛛及其破纪录的蛛网一无所知，他们的这一发现将会刊登在这周的《节肢动物学期刊》和《PLoS ONE》杂志上。
But the Darwin's bark spider and its record-breaking webs were unknown to science until they were documented by the team, whose findings appear this week in the Journal of Arachnology and PLoS ONE.
但是，在Agnarsson团队发现这些蜘蛛以前科学家对达尔文吠蛛及其破纪录的蛛网一无所知，他们的这一发现将会刊登在这周的《节肢动物学期刊》和《PLoS ONE》杂志上。
But the Darwin's bark spider and its record-breaking webs were unknown to science until they were documented by the team, whose findings appear this week in the Journal of Arachnology and PLoS ONE.
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