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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...
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.
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.
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.
2 gru 2015 · One population of olms, discovered in a cave in south-eastern Slovenia in 1986, have black skin and functioning eyes.
24 lut 2023 · These ancient versions of a salamander, usually about 8 to 12 inches long, diverged from other amphibians almost 110 million years ago, around the same time modern birds emerged. Slovenian olms live exclusively in subterranean caves in the Dinaric Alps, a mountain range of extreme biodiversity and a natural bridge between the Balkans and the Alps.
