Last year, Dr. Matthew Niemiller, an associate professor of biological sciences and director of the Cave Bio Lab at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), set out to survey Bobcat Cave near Huntsville.
He was expecting to document the usual residents, such as the endangered Alabama cave shrimp, two species of cave crayfish, and the southern cavefish. Instead, he stumbled upon a creature that looks like it crawled straight out of a science fiction movie.
