#cave

[expressions-of-nature]

Glow Worm Caves, New Zealand by Daniel Kordan

[lepetitdragonvert]

Ulysses Fleeing The Cave of Polyphemus

1812

Artist : Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (1783-1853)

[fwipination]

Don't trust that expression, and don't take whatever deal he's offering. It's clearly too expensive.

[zegalba]

Abandoned Tori Gate found in Japanese Tunnel

Such gates are used to mark the entrance to sacred grounds or gods' territories. "The tori gate symbolizes the division between the sacred and the profane, and is considered a spiritual gateway between the physical world and the spiritual realm."

[sixpenceee]

How this water reflects light on the cave wall | source

[keepingitneutral]

Dream House, Capri, Italy,

Design by Seydou Djermakoye

[minarachelle]

Ermitage Saint-Antoine de Galamus, France - 2017

[ecoharbor]

📍Algarve, Portugal 🇵🇹

[aestum]

(by alan bajura)

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"A Kind of Blindness, A Kind of Sight" by Jaclyn Kolev Brown

[expressions-of-nature]

by inaudible_memories

[allosaurusrock]

Just learned about something very very cool that I’m shocked I didn’t know about before- Paleoburrows.

These are giant tunnels, mostly found in Brazil. Over 1,500 of them are documented.

It was originally assumed that they were dug by indigenous people, and many of them were repurposed into human shelters at some point, but we now believe they were built by prehistoric megafauna.

We know this because of distinct claw marks along the walls of the caverns, unlike anything humans have produced.

They come in a variety of sizes.

The smaller ones were probably dug by large armadillos, such as Holmesina.

The larger could have been dug by giant ground sloths like Glossotherium.

Thank you for reading, I just thought this was cool and wanted to share.

Sources and credits after the cut

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[moodboardmix]

Desert Haven, Meymand, Kerman, Iran,

Zahra Karamoozian

[sixpenceee]

The Enchanted Cave is the largest amethyst cave in the world | source

[dame-de-pique]

Ice cave, Mount Ruapehu, 1933