The article below appeared this week in several news sources, all of which had so many advertisements that it was difficult to read the article
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5148001/ Creepy-Bronze-Age-cave-brought-life-3D-model.html https://www.livescience.com/61099-cave-of-the-dead-revealed.html Obituaries: The guy that allegedly found and named the Chinese blind cave beetle, *Pilosaphaenops whitteni*, was killed in a bicycling accident. He was a contributor to the bat article below: ( may download slowly ) https://www.rufford.org/files/Laumanns%20(ed.)%20(2016).pdf Here is a story from New Zealand with a video of virtual lava tube http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2017/12/auckland- s-underground-lava-tunnels-unveiled-in-3d-exhibition.html It appears that cave-divers routinely publish photos to the web. There are dozens just from this week. I guess this is one: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/08/a4/df/08a4dfbf48adfd129d9caf549891982d.jpg I believe this is a cave-diver from Galveston that many of you know: https://images.csmonitor.com/csm/2017/12/1052076_2_1206%20caves%20diver_standard.jpg?alias=standard_600x400 For you gamers: Here is some kind of weird game where a knight riding a horse on an island is looking for stuff and discovers a cave. He does not explore it, in this video. ( Please skip to 6:52 in the video ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tE4ohOkdeFk Here is a bizarre video game scene underground by ( Crash & Friend ?? ) featuring a cool piezo-electric kerosene lantern ( please skip to about 12:30 in the video ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fsl5kRX6xVQ Here is a spooky cave in a video game with lots of graphics ( warning: the motion in the video gave me motion-sickness ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m18inwhpJJQ There is probably a ton of new stuff on YouTube, but that should be enough for one night. Someone will someday need to make a karst portal to handle the wealth of all the digital info on the web related to caves. There will probably need to be some kind of national organization created to help them maintain it.
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