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 ...

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 ...

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In 1986, Romanian geologist Cristian Lascu discovered Movile Cave near Mangalia, Romania—a place that has remained completely sealed off from the surface world for 5.5 million years. No air, water, or ...

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 ...

A new species of endemic, troglobiont centipede was discovered by an international team of scientists in the Romanian cave Movile: a unique underground ecosystem, isolated several millions years ago ...