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Olm eggs: First two Slovenian 'dragons' emergeAfter a four-month wait, the eggs laid by a peculiar salamander in a Slovenian cave have started to hatch.Ghostly pale and totally blind, olms - fondly known by locals as "baby dragons" - only reproduce every 5-10 years and are thought to live to 100.This clutch of eggs started to appear in January in an aquarium in Postojna Cave, a tourist destination where the creatures have lived for millennia.Observing baby olms develop and hatch is a rare opportunity for science.The first of 23 developed eggs hatched on 30 May; a second baby olm (pictured below) was slowly wriggling out of its egg on Wednesday night.More and Pictures at: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-36418545
