This is what an isolated pool of milky-blue water untouched by humans for hundreds of thousands of years looks like.

Carlsbad Caverns announced the discovery of the cave in June 2020, but the pool has been found earlier this year.

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Grounded, Yosemite National Park, CA, USA [OC] [2888x2184] - Author: Slow_T4R on reddit

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mapsontheweb

Where is the nearest National Park in the US?

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tannerherriott

Pretty much sums up my trip to Washington state and Olympic National Park earlier this month. Driving, rain, and freakin’ beautiful scenery. That and falling in love my 25mm Zeiss CP.2 lens at 6k.

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A 22-month-old female scaredy cat tiger appeared to get the shock of her young life when she encountered a dead leaf floating on a pool of water in the Bandhavgarh National Park, India. Clearly unusure about just what was approaching her, the partially submerged youngster’s tail shot up in the air and with teeth bared she let out her most fearsome growl - all in an effort to scare the humble leaf away.

Picture: HERMANN BREHM / NPL / Rex Features

watsoniananatomy

I CAN’T BREATHE

renderiot

OMFG I AM DYING!

this is like the happiest thing I have encountered in a while

natrenwal

they should form a support group. 

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seasonsofserendipity

Sunrise canoeing at Lake Louise, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada

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papasmoke

The discovery of fossilized human footprints in White Sands New Mexico dating to 23,000 years ago is revolutionary for a lot of reasons and one really important one is that it thoroughly obliterates the settler colonial notion that the indigenous peoples of the America’s never had extensive contact with horses prior to the introduction of domesticated feral populations descended from the horses that came over with the Spanish in the 1400′s. It’s currently believed that horses went extinct in North America between 12,000 and 11,000 years ago which gives us an at least ten thousand year window where humans and horses coexisted in North America.

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If you want to hear about this incredible archaeological evidence from someone who isn’t white (you should) here’s an excellent article that both talks about the discovery itself and the colonialist way in which it’s been framed by news sources so far.

https://www.hcn.org/articles/indigenous-affairs-archaeology-the-white-sands-discovery-only-confirms-what-indigenous-people-have-said-all-along

Anonymous asked:

As someone who lives in New Mexico and frequently visits Arizona, you don't want to come down here. We had 7 days of snow during winter, it's so so dry here all the time, it regularly reaches over 100 degrees during summer, the cactus, the cactus, THE CACTUS, grass doesnt grow green here. It's dusty always, dust storms are a real problem in some areas of Arizona and east NM, the Rio Grande is polluted as hell and has been declining in water level steadily. I recommend Nevada if you like desert

that all sounds awesome tho literally anything but MI tbh

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ourspaceisbeautiful

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