In the nineties, Steve completed several dozen expeditions into the Lechuguilla Cave in New Mexico’s Carlsbad Caverns National Park, where he helped map some of the 150 miles of passageways.

A scientist admires gypsum "chandeliers" inside the 150-mile-long Lechuguilla Cave, one of the mapped caves in the largely unmapped region pocked with cave systems.

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 ...

In the nineties, Steve completed several dozen expeditions into the Lechuguilla Cave in New Mexico’s Carlsbad Caverns National Park, where he helped map some of the 150 miles of passageways.

Discovered in 1986 in the Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico, Lechuguilla Cave quickly changed the landscape of speleology in North America. With a depth of 1,604 feet (489 meters), it is not ...

There are even older examples, such as Lechuguilla Cave in New Mexico, USA, an environment considered isolated for 4 million years. Nevertheless, a 2016 study found Streptomyces and Paenibacillus ...

NIck Cave said he declined Morrissey's offer to contribute vocals to a new song, because it meant reading an 'unnecessarily provocative' speech.

The “unusual” Nelson cave spider is an ancient species and New Zealand’s largest native spider with legs over 5 inches long, according to officials.

On the northern edge of the Ozark Mountains, Onondaga Cave is one of two known caves that encompass part of a Missouri state park that shares the same name.