Its blind cave form, however, is notable for having no eyes and being albino, that is, completely devoid of pigmentation ; it has a pinkish-white color to its body.

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

Astyanax jordani, however, is another blind cave fish, independently and recently evolved from the sighted surface form, which is sometimes confused with the cave form of A. mexicanus.

However, when born, the cave dwelling form of A. mexicanus has eyes.

The earliest forms of graffiti date back to 30, 000 BC in the form of prehistoric cave paintings and pictographs using tools such as Animal bones and pigments.

The Homeric Hymn to Pythian Apollo makes the monster Typhaon the offspring of archaic Hera in her Minoan form, produced out of herself, like a monstrous version of Hephaestus, and whelped in a cave in Cilicia.

It was in Mecca, in the nearby mountain cave of Hira on Jabal al-Nour, that, according to Islamic tradition, Muhammad is said to have begun receiving divine revelations from God through the Archangel Gabriel in 610 AD, and began to preach his form of Abrahamic monotheism against Meccan paganism.

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 ).

Tora Bora (, ), known locally as Spīn Ghar (, ), is a cave complex situated in the White Mountains ( Safed Koh ) ( Safed Koh is the Dari form for Spin Ghar ) of eastern Afghanistan, in the Pachir Wa Agam District of Nangarhar province, approximately west of the Khyber Pass and north of the border of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas ( FATA ) in Pakistan.

* Rock-cut tombs, a form widespread in the ancient world, in which the tomb is not built but carved out of the rock and can be a free-standing building but is more commonly a cave, which may be extensive and may or may not have an elaborate facade.

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.

Limestone is to a certain extent soluble, so cave systems form in the rock.

Natural bridges can form from natural limestone caves, where paired sinkholes collapse and a ridge of stone is left standing in between, with the cave passageway connecting from sinkhole to sinkhole.

The Cretan cave has stalactites suggestive of the goddess ' double form ( Kerenyi 1976 fig.

* Small octopuses sometimes use an empty shell as a sort of cave to hide in, or hold seashells around themselves as a form of protection like a temporary fortress.

In the alternative account of the origin of Typhon ( Typhoeus ), the Homeric Hymn to Apollo makes the monster Typhaon at Delphi a son of archaic Hera in her Minoan form, produced out of herself, like a monstrous version of Hephaestus or Mars, and whelped in a cave in Cilicia and confined there in the enigmatic Arima, or land of the Arimoi, en Arimois ( Iliad, ii.

He then explains how the philosopher is like a prisoner who is freed from the cave and comes to understand that the shadows on the wall do not make up reality at all, as he can perceive the true form of reality rather than the mere shadows seen by the prisoners.

All of the water draining into Grassy Cove flows underground through a large cave system and emerges 4 miles southwest at Head of Sequatchie to form the Sequatchie River.

However, studies have shown that blind cave fish embryos begin to grow eyes during development but then something actively stops this process and flesh grows over the partially grown eyes.

Another likely explanation for the loss of its eyes is that of selective neutrality and genetic drift: in the dark environment of the cave, the eyes are neither advantageous nor disadvantageous and thus any genetic factors that might impair the eyes ( or their development ) can take hold with no consequence on the individual or species.

The caves at Fairy Cave Quarry were formed mainly by the erosive action of water flowing beneath the water-table at considerable pressure ( so called ' phreatic ' development ), but as the water table has fallen many of the caves now lie well above it and the system now contains a variety of cave formations ( stalagmites, stalactites and calcite curtains ) which in their extent and preservation are amongst the best in Britain.

This latter development mirrors the real-life experience of band members Daevid Allen and Gilli Smyth who met their saxophonist, Didier Malherbe, in a cave in Majorca.

In UK cave diving, the term " Sherpa " is used without a drop of irony for the people who carry the diver's gear although recently this has gone out of fashion ; support is now more normally used, and before the development of SCUBA equipment such undertakings could be monumental operations.

Careful and technical cave state park development and maintenance are designed to preserve the natural cave system.

After gaining the cooperation of the Kartchner family and working with them for ten years, together they decided that the best way to achieve the goal of protection through development as a tour cave was to approach Arizona State Parks.

The discovery of the cave was finally made public in 1988 when the landowners sold the area to the state for development as a park and show cavern.

An underground block cave mine is currently under development, and is likely to extend Argyle's diamond production until 2018.

Cavers faced with the loss of access to caves due to land development and cave owners attempting to avoid some of the problems associated with visitation are some of the major reasons caves have been closed to cavers.

Karst development in the immediate area has created numerous caves associated with impact features, including the only cave known to occur in the central uplift of an impact structure, Hawkins Impact Cave.

The caves are said to be the earliest major Buddhist cave complex in China, with development occurring between the 3rd and 8th centuries.

The plicative dislocation structure of the massif is severely complicated by faults, with the fault-block structure strongly controlling both cave development and groundwater flow.

The two agencies performed a land swap in 1965, establishing the present boundaries of the park, and enabling the development of a new part of the cave.

The cave was known only as a small entrance on a steep hillside until several years of digging broke through into major passage development in October 1994.

The Solutrean culture, extended from northern Spain to south-east France, includes not only a beautiful stone technology but also the first significant development of cave painting, the use of the needle and possibly that of the bow and arrow.

Drying of cave air has reduced the growth rate of speleothems, stalactites, and stalagmites and encouraged the development of nodular travertine (" cave popcorn ").

Behind the ancestral house is a vertical cave that has potential for development into an environmental showcase.

Recent development work has upgraded the lighting and added an audio accompaniment to the cave experience.

WKPP mapping has resulted in the State of Florida and the U. S. Department of Agriculture establishing a " greenway " surrounding the Leon Sinks cave system and a " protection zone " for Edward Ball Wakulla Springs State Park, as well as numerous improvements in water management district operations, DOT road-building, and development planning.

The WKPP is notable for its part in the development of cave diving techniques and team diving protocols, the DIR method of scuba diving ( which is the basis for the teaching methodology of Global Underwater Explorers ) and the use of the Halcyon PVR-BASC and RB80 rebreathers.

They kill their prey, and it turns into a cave painting, upon which a building begins to be built.

Link begins the game armed with a small shield, but a sword becomes available to Link after he ventures into a cave that is accessible from the game's first map screen.

Although watercolor painting is extremely old, dating perhaps to the cave paintings of paleolithic Europe, and has been used for manuscript illumination since at least Egyptian times but especially in the European Middle Ages, its continuous history as an art medium begins in the Renaissance.

This time, Dhaos is thoroughly defeated, and the cave begins to collapse in on itself, and an unconscious Dhaos.

Thaipusam is also celebrated at another cave site, the Sri Subramaniar Temple in Gunong Cheroh, Ipoh, Perak and at the Nattukottai Chettiar Temple along Jalan Waterfall in Penang. The chariot procession begins on Thaipusam eve where the chariot together with Chettiar kavadis -- male chettiar carry a peacock feather yoke accompanying the silver chariot -- ( different from body-piercing type of kavadis ) departs Kovil Veedu ( House Temple ) on Penang Street, Georgetown in the morning ends here at night, an 10 hours journey to reach Hilltop temple.

Barber finds a cave where a hermit used to live and begins to live there.

The base then begins to explode and cave in on itself, burying the gold under a huge collapsing sand dune.

Mary is pregnant and, as labor begins, they head to a cave on a nearby hillside, where Jesus is born.

It isn ’ t until she is almost attacked by a wild wolf in a cave that she begins to speak to him.

When the TARDIS lands, the Doctor heads to the cave of the Great One and gives her the crystal, which she uses to complete a lattice that begins to magnify her mental powers.

" Asia and Panthea descend, and Scene IV begins in the cave of the Demogorgon.

Lee Ho drags Tang into a cave and begins to beat him to death.

Macocha Abyss is also the place where the Punkva River begins to run underground through the Punkvení cave system, and two small pools of water are visible at the surface.

The Doctor, along with a benefactor from the unidentified nation known only by the alias " Madame Piranha ", watch as Mechani-Kong enters an ice cave and begins to dig into the glacier.

From the speaker, the voice of Dr. Hu commands Kong to enter the cave and dig out the Element X. Kong complies and ventures into the cave and begins to dig.

The tour begins at the entrance to the cave, and continues inwards to Posselt Hall, a large room with a stalagmite called Posselt Tower in the centre.

He begins to cast a spell that transforms him into a globe of light that then whizes to the massive cave behind him.

Episode 1: It begins with Pink being used as a lure to keep a lusty monster named Monster Mage Viken off guard in a cave.