Lechuguilla Cave is found deep within this ancient coral-reef-turned-mountain range, the Guadelupe Mountains, which extend from southern New Mexico, where the cave lies, south into West Texas.

Since mapping began in 1986, explorers have surveyed more than 134.6 miles (216.6 kilometers) of passages in Lechuguilla Cave.

Lechuguilla Cave has been completely isolated from the outside world for over four million years, making it one of the world’s most pristine ecosystems. And yet it’s full of bacteria that are ...

Blind Descent by Nevada Barr (Berkley, $8). National park ranger Anna Pigeon enters the frighteningly deep Lechuguilla Cave to rescue an injured woman. Claustrophobic terrors and murder make this ...

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 ...

However, the resistant bugs from Lechuguilla Cave in New Mexico, U.S., have had no contact with humans, suggesting the environment may be to blame.

CARLSBAD, N.M. (KRQE) – There’s been a new and really cool discovery deep in Carlsbad Caverns. A pool was found recently in the Lechuguilla Cave. Officials say the edges beneath the pool… ...

More than 25 years ago, she was rescued from the deepest cave in the U.S. More than 200 people helped bring her to the surface after she became stranded in the Lechuguilla Cave in New Mexico.

More than 25 years ago, she was rescued from the deepest cave in the U.S. More than 200 people helped bring her to the surface after she became stranded in the Lechuguilla Cave in New Mexico.

A mapping expedition in which an explorer broke a leg deep below the Earth’s surface discovered 2.6 more miles to Lechuguilla Cave, making it the eighth-longest in the world. At 56.9 miles, t… ...