BIZARRE: Karst - What They Never Told You

How Animals That Live in Darkness Evolved Their Extraordinary Adaptations and What They Teach Us

When Eyes Become ExpensiveThe Mexican blind cavefish, Astyanax mexicanus, is the same species as its sighted river-dwelling relatives. Put them side by side and you see almost identical bodies, except the cave population has no eyes at all, just smooth skin where the sockets would be. This happened across roughly…

Times Life · Aug 1

Hidden beneath Europe’s Karst Plateau, four massive stone structures reveal a forgotten prehistoric world

Buried under the harsh landscape of the Karst Plateau, located on the border between Slovenia and Italy, are four huge stone structures which could revolutionise what we know about Europe in ancient times. The four huge structures were found thanks to modern ALS and LiDAR technology, revealing the existence of…

The Times of India · May 18

Going beyond the surface in the Karst plateau: exploring the new cross-border geopark in Italy and Slovenia

GeoKarst is a new EU-funded project highlighting a unique landscape of caves, gorges and medieval villages near Trieste

The Guardian - UK · Jan 22