Invertebrates > Centipedes
The King Cave Centipede (Cryptops speleorex), whose specific epithet translates directly to ‘King of the Cave,’ was described in 2020 as the undisputed apex predator of Movile Cave in southeastern Romania. Sealed off completely from the outside world for...
Amphibians > Salamanders & Newts
The Georgia Blind Salamander (Eurycea wallacei), formerly classified in the monotypic genus Haideotriton, is one of the rarest, most anatomically extreme, and ghostly subterranean amphibians in North America. Restricted exclusively to the flooded, pitch-black...
Amphibians > Salamanders & Newts
The Grotto Salamander (Eurycea spelaea) is a legendary subterranean amphibian native exclusively to the karst cave systems of the Ozark Plateau in North America. As an obligate cave dweller (troglobite), it undergoes one of the most astonishing developmental...
