Movile Cave has remained isolated for close to 5.5 million years, about the same time our ancestors were coming down from the trees in the plains of Africa and beginning the evolutionary journey to ...

Inside of a highly toxic, oxygen-deprived cave, a strange new species has managed to flourish. As they say in “Jurassic Park,” life finds a way. The creature, which is a kind of ostracod — an ancient ...

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A photo of the newly discovered centipede species Cryptops speleorex, the largest inhabitant of Romania's Movile cave known to date. (Mihai Baciu, GESS LAB, Mangalia) The king of the Movile cave in ...

Movile Cave harbors a completely isolated groundwater ecosystem. Although it lacks any input of photoautotrophically based food, it is inhabited by a rich invertebrate community. Chemoautotrophic ...

Movile Cave water and mat samples were collected in September 2007. The pH of the water was 7.5. The samples were kept at 4 °C until they were shipped to the University of Warwick (UK) for further ...

A photo of the newly discovered centipede species Cryptops speleorex, the largest inhabitant of Romania's Movile cave known to date. (Mihai Baciu, GESS LAB, Mangalia) Sign up for the Top 8, a roundup ...

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 ...

A “peculiar” new species has been discovered dwelling in a toxic cave in Romania, a new study says. Photo from the journal Scientific Reports Inside of a highly toxic, oxygen-deprived cave, a strange ...

Deemed to never see the light of the day, a new species of endemic, troglobiont centipede was discovered by an international team of scientists in the Romanian cave Movile: a unique underground ...