That's a long time to stay in the same spot. A rare type of cave-dwelling salamander known as the olm can live a very long life, typically in Europe, but now researchers say that one salamander didn't budge for 2,569 days. Balázs and his colleagues at Eötvös Loránd University in Hungary came across the amphibian inside a cave in Bosnia and Herzegovina. SEALS SEEN CLAPPING UNDERWATER AS A SHOW OF STRENGTHGET THE FOX NEWS APPOlms can go years without eating, they don't tend to enjoy socializing and other animals don't prey on them, according to The Independent. The researchers published their findings in the Journal of Zoology on Jan. 28.

Source: Fox News February 05, 2020 19:41 UTC