The Movile Cave, located just a few miles west of the Black Sea in Romania, is one of the most remarkable and isolated ecosystems on Earth. Sealed off from the outside world for about 5.5 million ...

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 ...

Discover The Bizarre Life In Movile Cave: A World Sealed Off For 5 Million Years It’d make an introvert’s paradise if not for the total lack of sunlight, smell of rotten eggs, and creepy crawlies.

The venomous centipede crawled into the Movile Cave millions of years ago and adapted to live in the pitch black, surrounded by deadly gases.

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 ...

Dozens of species live in Romania's toxic Movile Cave, and a newly described centipede species is the "king" of this unique ecosystem.

Movile Cave (Mangalia, Romania) represents the access to the first terrestrial self-sustained ecosystem dependent on chemoautotrophically fixed carbon (Kumaresan, 2014; Sarbu, 1996; Sarbu, 1994), ever ...

KEY POINTS 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 ...

A range of methylotrophic bacteria in Movile Cave grow on one-carbon compounds including methylated amines, which are produced via decomposition of organic-rich microbial mats.