2nd Biospeleological expedition - Pelješac 2019 On Friday, April 19 the 2nd Biospeleological Expedition - Pelješac 2019 starts. :) The organizers are CBSS and Breganja Association. The main goals are a comprehensive survey of underground habitats and animals throughout the Pelješac peninsula and a speleological exploration of newly discovered caves. During two field researches that

Annual general meeting Dear members and friends of CBSS, we invite you to the Annual general meeting of CBSS on April 15th, 2019 at 19:30, at the address Savski kuti, Lomnička 3 in Zagreb (right next to the office of the CBSS: http://www.hbsd.hr/Kontakt.html). Agenda: A welcoming word from the CBSS president Secretariat’s Report Cashier’s Report

The first prehistoric figurative cave art in Balkans At Romuald's Cave in Istria were identified Palaeolithic rock art paintings. Besides graphic units such as dots, lines and colored marks, some images are identified as zoomorphic figures (a bison and an ibex) and as anthropomorphic figures. They were painted with red pigment and are 30 000

Longest salt cave in the world Our members Branko Jalžić, Petra Kutleša, Marta Malenica and Matija Čepelak participated in the expedition to Malham cave, Mt Sedom (Mt Sodom), Israel which became the longest salt cave in the world! Malham cave is located in the south part of the Dead Sea in Israel. The cave is

Technologies in biology: bats On Monday, February 18, 2019, at 6 pm in the Nikola Tesla Technical Museum in Zagreb is the opening of the exhibition "Technologies in Biology: Bats". The exhibition was created based on research and bats telemetry during projects on the island of Lokrum. Projects were conducted by CBSS in cooperation with

Teeth of a fossil fish found in a cave on the island Korčula Our member Branko Jalžić was a part of a cave research team who is responsible for finding fossil fish teeth old at least 100 million years. The teeth were found in a cave called Borovčeva jama discovered recently this year in the

Speleological research of the Pelješac peninsula On the Pelješac peninsula, about 70 caves are known. Among them, 40 are known only from literature. The assumption is that there is a potential to find as many as 300 caves. Between 13 and 21 November 2018 we were speleologically researching the area and visited 21 caves. Of

A new article about the Collembola in Dinaric karst Recent research on cave Collembola in Dinaric karst resulted in the discovery of a high number of new species. In this paper, four new species from Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro are described and illustrated. Species delimitations are confirmed by molecular species delimitation approaches. You

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Biospeleological research in the „Northern Velebit“ National Park This year, we are conducting biospeleological research in the „Northern Velebit“ National Park. You can read more (in Croatian) about the cave fauna of the area and the project at the link.