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- My name is Monica and my question is,

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why is it important to learn about caves?

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- Interesting.

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Thanks, Monica.

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- That's a great question, as well.

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- Why is it important?

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- Thank you, Monica.

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So, there's so many
different reason why learning

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about caves, super important.

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There's a lot that we
can learn from caves.

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We learn about where our,
our water can come from.

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Ah, we can learn about, um, past climates.

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We can learn, um, we can be
inspired to make beautiful art.

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So there's a whole range of reasons why.

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- Different ecosystems.

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So even though you think
this cave, it's bare,

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and there's only, you
know, stalagmites hanging

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from the ceiling, there are many animals

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that use the cave to
live here and microbes.

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And like Barb said,
there are also fossils.

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So caves are great repositories
for different artifacts.

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And we had found fossils
that date, you know,

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from millions of years.

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We're also finding baskets or
different things that other

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humans left behind when
they were living on caves.

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And it's important to preserve them.

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So there's so much to
caves, not just a dark,

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you know, hole in the ground.

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(laughter)

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- Thank you for that question
and interesting follow-up.

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This one came from online
from Gilmore Academy

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because it's an interesting follow-up.

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There in Mills, Ohio by the way.

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Lots of Ohio love today.

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Um, do you think that there are

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plant and animal species that
we haven't discovered yet?

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- Oh, absolutely.

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We're always finding new things.

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That's why it's always
the best thing to do

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is to be very careful
if you ever enter a cave

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and you happen to may be the first one,

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to always report it to the
owner or to a scientist,

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or someone, because there may be

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something brand new that's in there.

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And even though caves may not be, um,

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named after people, but fossils can be.

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(laughter)

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Remember that.

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So, yeah.

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- Yeah, there is.

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- It's always, yeah.

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- Yeah, and there's so many
caves acro-, around the

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world that haven't been discovered yet.

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Um, there's still the
possibility to find new caves,

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and with those caves, new species and new,

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new things that live there
in those environments, so.

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- Fascinating.