{"id":85413,"date":"2018-12-03T04:22:35","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T12:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/gigantic-unexplored-cave-found-in-canada-may-never-have-been-seen"},"modified":"2018-12-03T04:22:35","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T12:22:35","slug":"gigantic-unexplored-cave-found-in-canada-may-never-have-been-seen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/gigantic-unexplored-cave-found-in-canada-may-never-have-been-seen","title":{"rendered":"Gigantic Unexplored Cave Found in Canada May Never Have Been Seen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m0zCbxYravM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A huge, gaping cave has been discovered hidden in the remote Canadian wilderness, and despite the overwhelming scale of this stunning natural void, researchers suggest it may never have been seen by human eyes before.<\/p>\n<p>Nicknamed the \u2018Sarlacc Pit\u2019 after the monstrous pit-dwelling beast in <em>Star Wars<\/em>, the giant cave \u2013 concealed amidst the rugged terrain of British Columbia\u2019s Wells Gray Provincial Park \u2013 is so vast its effectively unbelievable, explorers say.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy immediate reaction was that there can\u2019t be a cave there, it\u2019s impossible,\u201d geoscientist Catherine Hickson, who conducted an expedition to the site in September, told <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/4720734\/massive-unexplored-cave-of-national-significance-b-c-park\/\">Global News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/gigantic-unexplored-cave-hidden-in-canada-may-never-have-been-seen-by-human-eyes\">https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/gigantic-unexplored-cave-hidden...human-eyes<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A huge, gaping cave has been discovered hidden in the remote Canadian wilderness, and despite the overwhelming scale of this stunning natural void, researchers suggest it may never have been seen by human eyes before. Nicknamed the \u2018Sarlacc Pit\u2019 after the monstrous pit-dwelling beast in Star Wars, the giant cave \u2013 concealed amidst the rugged [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}