So scientists recently unearthed this cave:
https://blog.theearthsite.greatergood.com/movile-cave/
Estimated at 5MILLION years old!
They found all kinds of life but i want to know…
Why is it all bugs? Why is there not larger life forms in this cave?
I also want to proactively counter the idea of “no sunlight to sustain growth via food chain or metabolism”, because in the deep ocean there is also no light, yet we have giant squids, fish, and mega worms…
So why is there no “cave creatures” of comparable size??
In: Biology
Have you ever heard of a *whale fall*?
When whale dies, it’s corpse falls to the ocean floor and when it falls in deep enough waters, the food energy added to that part of the ocean floor results in an explosion of the size and complexity of life that can be supported by the ecosystem in the area.
Whales and other animals swimming around in the ocean and occasionally bringing more chemical energy down to the abyss (called the [Biological pump](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_pump)) are why you can get larger more complex creatures there than in a sealed cave.
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