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
Those deep sea creatures you mention feed on the corpses of the big dead things that sink to the ocean floor. And at the true sunless bottom of the ocean life diversity is very restricted.
But in a cave you dont have that. Its a closed system and there are only going to be so much energy to go around, nothing gets added (or at least not to the level the sun provides to plants). There simply isn’t enough energy in the system to support larger lifeforms.
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