
Somewhere in the underground waters of eastern Herzegovina, in darkness that sunlight has never reached, an animal was found after 2,569 days in precisely the same place where it had first been recorded. That is more than seven years.

Nature doesn’t follow the rules we expect. The longer you observe it, the clearer it becomes that “normal” doesn’t really exist in the animal world. Some species look as if they were created by accident, others like experiments that turned out better than anyone planned.