A FEW years ago, I visited Slovenia to do a story on the olm, a type of salamander that lives exclusively in caves in the western Balkans. As a result (and as is my wont) I got a bit obsessed with troglobites, creatures that spend their entire lives in underground caves. That led to my first encounter with a notorious beetle called Anophthalmus hitleri, discovered in the same cave system …
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