Slovenian prehistoric fauna incredibly diverse

When thinking about Slovenian animals, most would consider bees, bears and Lipizzan horses, but an exhibition of prehistoric fossil bones and teeth is adding animals such as macaque monkeys, giant hyenas and Merck's rhinos to the list.

The exhibition Early Ice Age in Slovenian Lands: New Discoveries opened on 17 June at the Notranjska Regional Museum in Postojna.

It features finds from the Middle Pleistocene from two sites in southwest Slovenia. Archaeological discoveries from that period are more rare in Slovenia and thus that much more important, biologist Slavko Polak, one...