One hypothesis for the cave fish's evolution says that because of its dark habitat, the fish embryo saves energy it would normally use to develop eyes to develop other body parts, and this developmental choice would eventually dominate the population.

When water percolates through limestone or other soluble carbonate rocks, it partially dissolves the rock and causes cave formation and characteristic stalactites and stalagmites and also forms hard water.

Full-scale cave rescues often involve the efforts of dozens of rescue workers ( often other long-time cavers who have participated in specialised courses, as normal rescue staff are not sufficiently experienced in cave environments ), who may themselves be put in jeopardy in effecting the rescue.

After an appropriate delay without a return, these will then organise a search party ( usually made up by other cavers trained in cave rescues, as even professional emergency personnel are unlikely to have the skills to effect a rescue in difficult conditions ).

Some cave passages may be marked with flagging tape or other indicators to show biologically, aesthetically, or archaeologically sensitive areas.

In these mountain cave settlements, people lived who used tools, mastered fire, and used animal skin for warmth and other purposes.

The presence of other generalized non-cercopithecids of middle Miocene age from sites far distant — Otavipithecus from cave deposits in Namibia, and Pierolapithecus and Dryopithecus from France, Spain and Austria — is evidence of a wide diversity of forms across Africa and the Mediterranean basin during the relatively warm and equable climatic regimes of the early and middle Miocene.

He built nearly 40 churches along the coast with the fund of local headmen and king, out of this St. Stephen's Church, Kombuthurai find mention in his letters dated 1544. He lived in a sea cave in Manapad, intensively catechizing paravars and other children for three months in 1544.

For example, in the Shanidar cave in Iraq, in Pontnewydd Cave in Wales and other sites across Europe and the Near East, Neanderthal skeletons have been discovered with a characteristic layer of flower pollen.

Hutton states that modern photographs show the original cave art lacks horns, a human torso or any other significant detail on its upper half.

Yob later developed Wumpus 2 and Wumpus 3, which offered more hazards and other cave layouts.

Merlin's death is recounted differently in other versions of the narrative ; the enchanted prison is variously described as a cave ( in the Lancelot-Grail ), a large rock ( in Le Morte d ' Arthur ), an invisible tower, or a tree.

He hid the prophets in two caves, so that if those in one cave should be discovered those in the other might yet escape ( 1 Kings ).

In Igbo villages, oracles were usually female priestesses to a particular deity, usually dwelling in a cave or other secluded location away from urban areas, and, much as the oracles of ancient Greece, would deliver prophecies in an ecstatic state to visitors seeking advice.

Other stone tools from the Middle Paleolithic era ( 200, 000 – 80, 000 BCE ) come from the Prepost cave ( Prepoštská jaskyňa ) near Bojnice and from other nearby sites.

Stalactites can also form on concrete, and on plumbing where there is a slow leak and limestone ( or other minerals ) in the water supply, although they form much more rapidly there than in the natural cave environment ( description and experiments see literature ).

Alternatively, other authors hold that leaf kites existed far before that time in what is now Indonesia, based on their interpretation of cave paintings on Muna Island off Sulawesi.

Since the cave environment is dark, there is no plant life performing photosynthesis, and food is mainly introduced from the outside world by other organisms.

In Switzerland, many other age profiles can be found, including surchoix, vieux, salé, and Höhlengereift ( cave aged ), but these age profiles are not part of the AOC.

The presence of gold and other found objects within the cave indicated to researchers a status of the inhabitant.

Echolocating animals include some mammals and a few birds ; most notably microchiropteran bats and odontocetes ( toothed whales and dolphins ), but also in simpler form in other groups such as shrews, one genus of megachiropteran bats ( Rousettus ) and two cave dwelling bird groups, the so-called cave swiftlets in the genus Aerodramus ( formerly Collocalia ) and the unrelated Oilbird Steatornis caripensis.

In Grímnismál, Odin and Frigg are both sitting in Hliðskjálf when they see their foster sons Agnarr and Geirröðr, one living in a cave with a giantess and the other a king.

In 1987, Ior Bock and his supporters began fund-raising in order to finance excavation of a sediment-filled cave that is situated under the hill ' Sibbosberg ', situated north of Gumbostrand in Sipoo, 30 km east of Helsinki – at the estate Bock had inherited from his parents.

A number of digs in the cave were made on various occasions during 1987 – 1998.

This cave was renovated in the 1970s after years of neglect, and was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987 to preserve the artwork.

It became notorious following the publication of Richard Preston's book The Hot Zone in 1994 for its association with the Marburg virus after two people who had visited the cave ( one in 1980 and another in 1987 ) contracted the disease and died.

The cave was pushed to − 340 m during 1982 – 1987.

The Denver Museum of Natural History ( now known as the Denver Museum of Nature and Science ) filmed one of the first documentaries in the cave, titled Lechuguilla Cave: The Hidden Giant, in 1987, featuring many of the cavers responsible for the breakthrough and initial survey work.

The cave was investigated in 1987 under the direction of Emanual Anati, Professor of paleontology at Lecce University.

The State of Alabama bought the cave in 1987 with the intent to reopen the site as a state park.

As documented in the book Ana Mendieta: A Book of Works, edited by Bonnie Clearwater, before her death, Ana Mendieta was working on a series of photo-etchings of cave sculptures she had created at Escaleras de Jaruco, Jaruco State Park in Havana, Cuba ( Clearwater 1993, p. 11 ).

* 1185 – The cave city of Vardzia is consecrated by Queen Tamar of Georgia.

2 Maccabees 2: 4-10, written around 100 BC, says that the prophet Jeremiah, " being warned by God " before the Babylonian invasion, took the Ark, the Tabernacle, and the Altar of Incense, and buried them in a cave on Mount Nebo ( Jordan ), informing those of his followers who wished to find the place that it should remain unknown " until the time that God should gather His people again together, and receive them unto mercy.

This replica was discovered in a cave by a Swedish German missionary named Harald von Sicard in the 1940s and eventually found its way to the Museum of Human Science in Harare.

The island first attracted the notice of archaeologists by the remarkable archaic Greek bronzes found in a cave on Mount Ida in 1885, as well as by epigraphic monuments such as the famous law of Gortyna ( also called Gortyn ).

* Pictures of the cave where it is believed by Christians that Jesus was buried and from which it is believed he resurrected and a picture of the remains of the walls of the Temple of Venus previously constructed on that site by the Emperor Hadrian

A. mexicanus is famous for its blind cave form, which is known by such names as blind cave tetra, blind tetra, and blind cavefish.

* In the final act of Batman Begins, while being cornered by the GCPD at Arkham Asylum Batman uses a high-frequency device to attract his bats from the cave.

These areas are eroded at a faster pace creating a hole or crevasse that, through time, by means of wave action and erosion, becomes a cave.

The challenges involved in the activity depend on the cave being visited, but often include the negotiation of pitches, squeezes, and water ( although actual cave diving is a separate sub-specialty undertaken by very few cavers ).

The scaling-pole ( 1940 ), nylon ropes ( 1942 ), use of explosives in caves ( 1947 ) and mechanical rope-ascenders ( Henri Brenot's " monkeys ", first used by Chevalier and Brenot in a cave in 1934 ) can be directly associated to the exploration of the Dent de Crolles cave system.

To reduce the risk of becoming lost, it is necessary to memorise the appearance of key navigational points in the cave as they are passed by the exploring party.

He prepared for death by retiring to his cave on the mountain-side overlooking the Trebbia, where, according to a tradition, he had dedicated an oratory to Our Lady ( Montalembert, " Monks of the West ", II, 444 ).

Among his principal miracles are: ( 1 ) procuring of food for a sick monk and curing the wife of his benefactor ; ( 2 ) escape from hurt when surrounded by wolves ; ( 3 ) obedience of a bear which evacuated a cave at his biddings ; ( 4 ) producing a spring of water near his cave ; ( 5 ) repletion of the Luxeuil granary when empty ; ( 6 ) multiplication of bread and beer for his community ; ( 7 ) curing of the sick monks, who rose from their beds at his request to reap the harvest ; ( 8 ) giving sight to a blind man at Orleans ; ( 9 ) taming a bear, and yoking it to a plough.

Sketches and paintings have been produced since prehistoric times, as demonstrated by cave and rock paintings.

The first recorded Diprotodon remains were discovered in a cave near Wellington in New South Wales in the early 1830s by Major Thomas Mitchell who sent them to England for study by Sir Richard Owen.

When Loki, god of mischief and strife, murdered Baldr, god of beauty and light, he was punished by being bound in a cave with a poisonous serpent placed above his head dripping venom.

The saint's body was claimed to have been discovered in a cave with a copy of the canonical Gospel of Matthew on its breast ; according to the contemporary account of Theodorus Lector, who reports that both bones and gospel book were presented by Anthemios to the emperor.