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25 paź 2022 · The olm, a sightless salamander found in caves in Slovenia, Italy, and Albania, can live to be a hundred years old. Photograph by Nature Picture Library, Alamy Stock Photo. “This is the closest...
3 gru 2021 · Deep in vast caverns of the Postojna cave network, a blind salamander found nowhere else on Earth is one of the star attractions both for visitors and the scientists unraveling its secrets.
20 lip 2010 · July 20, 2010. • 7 min read. In the caves of Slovenia and Croatia lives an animal that’s a cross between Peter Pan and Gollum. It’s the olm, a blind, cave-dwelling salamander, also called the...
The olm or proteus (Proteus anguinus) is an aquatic salamander in the family Proteidae, the only exclusively cave-dwelling chordate species found in Europe. In contrast to most amphibians, it is entirely aquatic, eating, sleeping, and breeding underwater.
The olm (German: ⓘ) or proteus (Proteus anguinus) is an aquatic salamander which is the only species in the genus Proteus of the family Proteidae [2] and the only exclusively cave-dwelling chordate species found in Europe; the family's other extant genus is Necturus.
25 kwi 2016 · The salamander’s S-curve has been found carved into the weathered stone of at least one stećak, a type of medieval tombstone that lies scattered across the region.
6 lut 2020 · These “slimy creepy crawlies,” as they’re called by some in Slovenia, colonized the aquatic caves of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Italy, and Slovenia at some point between 8.8 million and 20 million years ago and have been there ever since.
