Meet the deepest land animal ever found
This pale little fellow is the newly discovered Plutomurus ortobalaganensis, a springtail found almost 2,000 meters underground and the title holder of “deepest terrestrial arthropod ever found.” This creature along with Anurida stereoodorata, Deuteraphorura kruberaensis, and Schaefferia profundissima are four new species identified by researchers who descended into Krubera-Voronja, the world’s deepest cave. These four…
