Quarry workers digging recently in central Israel broke through bedrock and stumbled into an entirely new and unique ecosystem, scientists announced Wednesday. The cavern had been sealed off from the outside world for millions of years.
“The eight species found thus far are only the beginning” of what promises to be “a fantastic biodiversity,” researcher Hanan Dimentman, of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences said in a statement.
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