Nature

This spider spins the toughest biological material ever measured

Darwin's bark spider builds orb webs across entire rivers and streams, some spanning more than 25 metres. Its silk is roughly twice as tough as any other spider silk known and outperforms Kevlar gram for gram, because tensile toughness combines both strength and stretch.

Ingi Agnarsson, Matjaž Kuntner, Todd A. Blackledge, Bioprospecting Finds the Toughest Biological Material: Extraordinary Silk from a Giant Riverine Orb Spider — PLOS ONE, 2010

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