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Dwellers in Movile Cave are peculiar. The mystical cave is only a few miles away from the Black Sea and it is impenetrable for about 5.5million years! However, the air in this cave is poisonous and humid in a way that you can’t bear it and this cave is now a goldmine for biologist.
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BBC Earth has claimed that not more than 100 people has inquired into the mystical cave. In 1986, people from the Socialist Republic of Romania was looking for a new place to erect a nuclear power plant.
Today, authorities already have fenced off that cave and people who wish to go in has to have a special permission.
Going
deep into the cave, the air is composed of half of the usual number of
oxygen and the carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulfide is high. It’s very
dark due to the sunlight has not penetrated it for atleast 5.5 million
years.
Inside
this grim surroundings, experts identifies 48 species living there.
Creatures like spiders, pseudoscorpions, water scorpions, leeches,
isopods, centipedes and 33 of them are peculiar in this cave.
Nearly
all of the creatures found in this cave has no vision. Long limbs that
are extra-long and antennae are the ones who help them maneuver in the
dark.
This world is known for relying on chemo-synthetic bacteria.
To gather up energy, most of the ecosystem use photosynthesis. Since
there is no sunlight penetrating the cave, these bacteria has to gather
up carbon straight from oxidation of sulfide or the oxidation of
ammonium which is a chemical reaction.
You’re may be wondering how the animals be on that cave since it is isolated?
J. Colin Murell, a microbiologist from the University of East Angelia
mentioned to BBC Earth, “It’s very likely that the bacteria have been
there a lot longer than five million years.” He added, “They could have
simply fallen in and became trapped when the limestone cast dropped,
sealing the cave until it was discovered again in 1896.”
Movile
Cave is believes to have many mysteries that is in the depths of the
cave. However, experts still has tons of dwellers to discover that can
give extensive insights into progressive biology.