Katja Batagelj, the managing director of the Postojna Cave, was the first person to discover the camera footage that revealed the exciting hatching of the first egg. The team at Postojna Cave have set up underwater cameras to capture the hatchings — something they say has never been done before. It’s beyond imagining.”Before the filmed birth at the Postojna Cave, the only time humans have watched olms hatch was in a laboratory. The initial batch of crystal clear eggs were discovered early this January inside an aquarium at Postojna Cave — a popular tourist spot in southwestern Slovenia. An extremely rare breed of blind salamanders known as “baby dragons” have started to hatch from their eggs in a Slovenian cave.

Source: National Post June 03, 2016 17:48 UTC