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King of the cave centipede: The deadly, blind giant that evolved in the darkness of a Romanian cave

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Cryptops speleorex is the largest invertebrate species in the Movile Cave, southeastern Romania .

It lives in a pitch black, sulfurous underground system untouched by sunlight for more than 5 million years .

The centipede has no eyes and relies on other senses to track down prey.

It eats insects, spiders and smaller centipedes.

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