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 ...

The Movile cave is the only land-based ecosystem with a chemosynthetic food chain – it’s more like what we find near hydrothermal vents in the alien-like depths of the ocean.

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 ...

Called the Movile Cave, this subterranean wonder has been sealed for an estimated 5.5 million years. The air is warm and deadly, with noxious gases and little oxygen, the tunnels narrow, the pure ...

Five million years in the darkness: A new troglomorphic species of Cryptops Leach, 1814 (Chilopoda, Scolopendromorpha) from Movile Cave, Romania. ZooKeys, 2020; 1004: 1 DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1004.58537 ...

Movile Cave in Dobrogea, Romania is no ordinary cave. Isolated from the outside world for 5.5 million years and only discovered in 1986 by Romanian workers looking for locations for a power ...

Romania's toxic Movile Cave is home to more than 50 species. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A venomous centipede is the ...

Why it's awesome: This deadly, yellow centipede has evolved to live in the Movile Cave — a pitch black, sulfurous underground system untouched by sunlight for more than 5 million years.

Researchers located 40 specimens of the new species in Romania’s Movile Cave, situated near the Black Sea, between 1990 and 2015, collecting and preserving them in ethanol for further study.

A long-lived debate existed as to whether the cave also contained surface-dwelling species, but the authors were unconvinced and eager to find the truth for themselves. Members of the team, ...