蛇骨架

一条蛇骨架静静的躺在在伯利兹的奇逵布(Chiquibul)洞系中，它再也不用奔波了。这座由雨水和地下奇逵布河雕琢出来的迷宫一般的石灰岩洞系位于伯利兹西部，有着数以千计的完整动物骨骼，据测定已有超过万年的历史了。

Photograph by Stephen L. Alvarez

No longer slithering, a snake skeleton lies silent in Belize’s Chiquibul Cave system. A labyrinthine series of limestone caves carved by rainwater and the subterranean Chiquibul River, the cave system in western Belize is home to thousands of intact skeletons dating back 10,000 years or more.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, “Inside Chiquibul,” April 2000, National Geographic magazine)