A blind, pale salamander in the caves of Slovenia can survive a decade without eating, may live past 100, and was once recorded staying in the exact same spot for seven years — locals call it the “human fish,” and it barely moves because in total darkness there is nowhere worth going

Somewhere deep beneath the limestone hills of Slovenia, in caves that no sunlight has ever touched, lives an animal that has, in nearly every way, given up on the version of being alive that the rest of us would recognise. It does not eat for years at a time. It does not move. It does [...] The post A blind, pale salamander in the caves of Slovenia can survive a decade without eating, may live past 100, and was once recorded staying in the exact same spot for seven years — locals call it the “hu