Silkhenge: Little known fact about an illusive spider.
2013: Silkhenge first discovered by Troy Alexander, a Georgia Tech Student, in 2013. He found it on an excursion in Peru. It involved a strange circular formation made out of silk that looks like stonehenge. But the actual spider wasn't determined until years later.
2016: Below, male nerd scientists going full out double-rainbow giddy with the birth of a spider in a silkhenge. But none of the spiders grew to adulthood and DNA tests were inconclusive. So the adult spider is yet to be identified.
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