Recently, something unexpected happened at Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico, and it’s got folks talking about the ...

NOVA: Are these cave extremophiles completely outside of the carbon-based system found on the surface? Northup: The ones in Lechuguilla are mainly but not totally outside the surface world.

Many of the world’s most iconic caves—Carlsbad Caverns and Lechuguilla in New Mexico, Mammoth Cave in Kentucky—were carved out over millions of years, by the plodding drip and flow of acidic ...

The National Park's primary caves include Carlsbad and Lechuguilla. Lechuguilla Cave includes the largest accumulation of ...

Lechuguilla Cave at Carlsbad Caverns is the deepest limestone cave in the country, and the fifth-longest known cave in the world. Read more about Oil and Gas Development Delayed Near Carlsbad Caverns ...

One of the most famed recent discoveries, Lechuguilla Cave, was discovered after decades of cave explorers hearing wind rushing through the cave. The National Park Service conducted a dig operation to ...