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Weird Encounters

The biggest, strangest, and most surprising animal events we’ve found in this category—plus the reason they happen.

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Weird Encounters

The sky was full of spiders — and the video is real

A teenager traveling through rural Minas Gerais filmed what looked like hundreds of spiders hanging in midair. They were not falling from the sky — they were suspended on an enormous communal web almost too fine to see.

Espírito Santo do Dourado, Minas Gerais, BrazilParawixia bistriata