Annual general meeting Dear members and friends of CBSS, we invite you to the Annual general meeting of CBSS on April 9th, 2018 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

Martina as the fellow of the week Marie Curie foundation has picked our member Martina Pavlek as a fellow of the week. Except for her passions for biology and speleology, the foundation talks about her other interests like cycling, mountaineering, and skiing. Here, you can find the rest of the text and ways how to

Alpioniscus (Illyrionethes) iapodicus, description of the new species from Croatia A description of the new species of terrestrial isopod, Alpioniscus (Illyrionethes) iapodicus, was published. This troglobiotic species inhabits the caves in the central part of the Lika region in Croatia. The new species is named after the Iapydes (Lat. Iapodes; Hr. Japodi), an ancient tribe

Melanization in response to wounding in albino cave species Recently, an article about melanization in response to wounding in arthropods has been published. The research included various albino subterranean species and their surface-dwelling relatives. A dark clot due to melanin deposition was present in all major arthropod lineages, including most albino cave species. You can

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