Weight for weight, some spider silk is tougher than steel and rivals bulletproof fibre

Darwin's bark spider spins a dragline silk measured as the toughest biological material known, able to absorb far more energy before breaking than Kevlar of the same weight. Spiders manage this with no furnace or factory — just proteins assembled at room temperature inside their own bodies.

— Materials science research on Araneae silk proteins, Spider silk — Darwin's bark spider, Caerostris darwini, described 2010

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