caves
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Otherworldly Photos Of The World’s Largest Cave Make Humans Seem Puny
See that tiny speck in the bottom right corner? That’s a person — a very hard-to-see person, standing inside Vietnam’s enormous Son Doong cave, the largest in the world. Photographer Ryan Deboodt ventured inside to get these astounding shots.
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World’s Oldest Cave Engraving Is A Vagina
This is a wall engraving from Abri Castanet, a shallow cave in southern France’s Vezere valley. It’s the oldest known cave etching, probably dating back around 37,000 years — and the researchers claim it depicts female genitalia.
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The 30,000-Year-Old Cave That Descends Into Hell
There’s a cave in France where no humans have been in 26,000 years. The walls are full of fantastic, perfectly preserved paintings of animals, ending in a chamber full of monsters 400m underground, where CO2 and radon gas concentrations provoke hallucinations.