Check out this 30,000-year-old underwater cave!

[Judi Lynn]

9 Jun 20229 June 2022Last updated at 01:55



The walls of the cave feature many different types of wildlife - from prehistoric cows to horses and penguins!


Scientists in France are racing to save a 30,000-year-old cave off the coast of south-west France.

Rising sea levels and plastic pollution are threatening to wash away the pre-historic artwork inside the cavern, which can only be accessed by diving to the bottom of the Mediterranean sea.

Archaeologists say it's the only place in the world where cave paintings of prehistoric marine life have been discovered.

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The cave is located 37 metres underwater and in order to get inside, divers need to swim through a 137 metre tunnel into the rock, passing through the mouth of the cave until they emerge into a huge cavern on the other side.

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[niyad]

1. KNR and bookmarking. For later.

[Hekate]

2. Amazing. Must read later...

[cstanleytech]

3. Tragic and its not the first time history was lost to the sea nor will it be the last.

Take the North Sea near England for example and imagine how much we lost as the North Sea covered what is now called Doggerland as the last ice age was ending.