Carlsbad Caverns National Park is a limestone show cave with the fifth-largest chamber in North America. Located in southern ...

At least 17 bat species call Carlsbad Caverns home, along with 55 different kinds of reptiles and 600 insects.

A 35-year study of cave swallows at Carlsbad Caverns has solved some abiding mysteries about the songbird. On a sunny afternoon last July, Steve West, a fit man in his 60s with white hair, a mustache, ...

1883 - The first Anglo to see Carlsbad Cavern is unknown, but in this year a 12 year old boy was lowered into the cave by his father . 1898 - Jim White first entered the caverns. White was a ...