A synthesis of cave-dwelling spiders in Europe Recently, an article about cave-dwelling spiders in Europe has been published. The authors provide the first overview of spiders living in subterranean habitats in Europe with the first European subterranean spider checklist. In Europe, there are 195 troglobiont and 291 troglophile species, within 92 genera and 22 families.

Science is wonder-ful! As a part of the 'Science is Wonder-ful!-European Researchers' Night' event held in Brussels in September 2017, our member, Martina Pavlek, presented her project on biodiversity and vulnerability of Dinaric cave spiders - HIDDENLIFE. The project was earlier this year selected among the 30 most representative projects of the EU program Marie

CBSS member awarded with Alexander von Humboldt Memorial Award The Natural Science Association Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, founded in 1817, is one of the oldest and largest in Europe. Today it includes research institutes and museums and publishes 9 journals in the area of biodiversity, marine biology, evolution and paleontology. The Association annually awards the

Life under the City - The secret life of the Dubrovnik underground We visited Dubrovnik-Neretva County in the far south of Croatia. The reason for visiting was our educational project "Life beneath the city - the secret underground life of the Dubrovnik area" financed by the Dubrovnik-Neretva County. We visited three elementary schools in Orašac,

Visit us at the Scientific Quarter of the INTERLIBER Visit the workshop of the Croatian Biospeleological Society at the Scientific Quarter of INTERLIBER between November 7th and 9th and discover who is hiding in the underground darkness. You can find a detailed schedule and description of all workshops at the link.  

Veryovkina (-2204 m), the new deepest cave in the world! Russian speleologists deepened the Veryovkina cave in Abkhazia, Caucasus during the expedition from 14th August to 4th September 2017. The new depth is 2204 m. It overtook Krubera cave (-2197 m) by 7 meters and has become the new deepest cave in the world! Nine

Description of a new cave centipede from Velebit Mt., Croatia A scientific article describing a new species of troglophilic centipede Eupolybothrus liburnicus sp. n. has been published. Specimens were collected in caves of Velebit Mountain in Croatia. The article is part of an ongoing revision of the subfamily Ethopolyinae. Along with the description of the

A short report from the 1st Biospeleological Expedition – Biokovo 2017 The 1st Biospeleological Expedition – Biokovo 2017 was successfully held from June 17 to June 25 in the Biokovo Nature Park. The expedition was attended by 48 participants, including 43 biospeleologists and/or speleologists from 15 speleological associations, out of which 6 foreigners from Slovenia,

Visit us! We invite you to OPEN DOOR DAYS OF NGOs 2017. We'll present the work of the Croatian Biospeleological Society through its own publications, photographs, and presentation of the video material. Visitors will be able to look at specimens of cave animals under the magnifier with explanations from the experts and/or volunteers of the

Don't visit Vrlovka Cave - bats have a nursery there! Vrlovka cave is an internationally important underground site for bats under UNEP/EUROBATS Agreement and part of the Natura 2000 ecological network. Despite that fact - it is open for tourists in the most sensitive time for bats - when pregnant females are gathering and delivering