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Meet The ‘King’ of a Toxic Underground Ecosystem Unlike Anywhere Else on Earth – ScienceAlert
The Movile cave in southeast Romania wouldn’t be top of your holiday destination list: no light gets down to it, the air is thick with poisonous gases, and it was…
The Movile cave in southeast Romania wouldn’t be top of your holiday destination list: no light gets down to it, the air is thick with poisonous gases, and it was cut off from the outside world for around 5.5 million years before its accidental discovery in 1986.
Life does exist in the Movile though, and scientists have identified the largest creature they’ve found there yet. It’s a troglobiont (or underground) centipede that has been given the name Cryptops speleorex, and it grows up to 52 mm (2…
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