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’s unique ecosystem and creatures could perhaps help us to understand what life was like in the planet’s primordial past, as well as give us some clues to battling greenhouse gasses.

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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.

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 ...