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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Established to preserve Carlsbad Cavern and numerous other caves within the Permian-age fossil Capitan Reef. The park contains over 85 known caves. This includes Lechuguilla Cave, the nation's deepest ...

Deep inside a cave in New Mexico, researchers have made a startling discovery – bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics, yet have been pristinely isolated from human contact for more than four ...

Tracy Wolfe followed a narrow sidewalk as it snaked into the looming maw of Lechuguilla Cave. Inside, Wolfe and his wife strolled through the underground, leaving the hot desert air behind them as ...

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 ...

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 ...