A 4-million-year-old strain of antibiotic-resistant bacteria has been found in the isolated Lechuguilla Cave in New Mexico – more than 400 meters (over 1300 feet) below the surface of the earth.

Lechuguilla Cave, Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico ... The Crystal Caves are the most famous of the many caves in Bermuda and are named after the crystal clear water that fills the caves.

Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico is home to one of the most impressive cave systems in the world. Below you ...

Lechuguilla cave, in the USA, is 193 kilometres long and 500 metres deep. It contains whole chambers filled with the most astonishing crystals including some a staggering six metres long.

Caves, dark and forbidding, are places of great mystery. Hundreds of thousands honeycomb our world. Tennessee alone has 7,000. They shelter new species, massive crystal chambers and underground ...

Cave of Crystals in Mexico. ... Lechuguilla was largely ignored until cavers uncovered extensive passages in 1986. More than 136 miles of underground passages have been discovered since then, ...

Jewel of the Underground. By Peter Tyson; Posted 10.01.02; NOVA; On Memorial Day, 1986, at the bottom of a small cave in New Mexico's Guadalupe Mountains, a group of cavers broke through a rubble ...

The pristine Lechuguilla Cave, located in the Carlsbad Caverns National Park, has had restricted access, limited to scientific researchers since its discovery in 1986.

This large, newly found room in Lechuguilla Cave is being called Munchkin Land. Note the caver standing on a rock, for scale. Derek Bristol. June 13, 2012, 2:37 PM EDT / Source: OurAmazingPlanet.

Read a description of the NOVA program Mysterious Life of Caves, originally broadcast on PBS on October 1, 2002. ... A self-guided tour of spectacular Lechuguilla Cave.

That made Lechuguilla Cave the perfect environment to look at the pre-existing reservoir of antibiotic resistance in nature. Since it was discovered in 1986, ...