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 ...

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Movile Cave in Romania was isolated from the outside world for 5.5 million years Researchers recently found the largest known creature to ever live in the cave The new species' name translates to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...