Curious places in Slovenia
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A subterranean river canyon over 100 meters deep hosts unique cave salamanders (olms) that can live 100 years and survive without food for a decade in total darkness.
The scenic lake filled when glaciers retreated 14,000 years ago. Sediment cores show continuous deposition since, recording climate changes in yearly layers.
Seahorses are terrible swimmers, yet they colonized every ocean on Earth. Around 25 million years ago, plate tectonics shoved the Australian plate under Indonesia, transforming deep channels into shallow seas where seagrass beds exploded. These beds pushed straight-bodied pipefish ancestors to evolve upright posture for ambush hunting. Then, clinging to floating clumps of seagrass, they rafted across the Tethys seaway and colonized the Atlantic before the Americas sealed shut.
A blind, translucent salamander that lives its entire 100-year lifespan in pitch-black underwater caves. It can survive 10 years without food and senses prey through electrical fields, having completely abandoned vision for cave life.
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