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Title:To The Ends Of The Earth: Secret Underworld: Encounters: The Cave
Date:20th September 2003
Description:Romanian geologists and biologists have discovered life forms living in total darkness and in poisonous air in the underground Movile Cave system. Over thirty terrestial and acquatic species of animal life have been discovered and are endemic to that particular ecosystem and are therefore not found anywhere else in the world.
The Movile Cave system is in Romania in Southern Dobrognea near the Black Sea coast and has many submerged passages and airbells which are full of sulphidic and poisonous gases. There are different typs of organisms living at different levels in the caves.