New centipede on top of the food chain in the sulphurous-soaked Movile — ScienceDaily
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 ecosystem, where the oxygen in the air might be half of the amount of what we’re used to, yet the sulphurous abounds; and […]
Deadly centipede ‘king’ rules over a poison hellscape cave
A venomous centipede is the top predator in a pitch-black poison cave that hasn’t seen daylight in more than 5.5 million years. Located in Romania, Movile Cave is over 65 feet (20 meters) below the surface, and its warm, moist air is low in oxygen and thick with toxic gasses, which feed chemosynthetic bacteria. Yet […]
