This cave pool, found in the Lechuguilla Cave of New Mexico, appears to be completely pristine. It was discovered in October at Carlsbad Caverns National Park. Max Wisshak photo/Carlsbad Caverns ...
Deep in the heart of the Guadalupe Mountains in southern New Mexico, rock-eating microbes are at work. But their appetite is dainty compared to their voracious hunger millions of years ago, when they ...
Lechuguilla Cave in Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico has been closed to the public since its discovery in 1986. Only select scientists and cave experts have been allowed to enter due to the ...
Research into the growing emergence of drug-resistant bacteria could be greatly assisted by the discovery of bacteria from deep within Lechuguilla Cave in New Mexico. The previously unknown strains of ...
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria found in one of the deepest, most isolated caves in the world could mean good news in the battle against superbugs. Researchers from McMaster and the University of Akron ...
The Cave of Swallows in Mexico is a 400 metre vertical shaft. Its deep enough to engulf the Empire State Building yet few people even know its existence. Lechuguilla cave, in the USA, is 193 ...
Despite being explored for more than a century, Carlsbad Caverns National Park still hides more passages. A team exploring the park's Lechuguilla Cave, the deepest cave in the continental United ...
This cave pool, found in the Lechuguilla Cave of New Mexico, appears to be completely pristine. It was discovered in October at Carlsbad Caverns National Park. Max Wisshak photo/Carlsbad Caverns ...
A large, newly found room in Lechuguilla Cave called Munchkin Land. Note the caver standing on a rock, for scale. Despite being explored for more than a century, Carlsbad Caverns National Park still ...