The Cave of Crystals is an underground cavern filled with tree-size gypsum crystals, including some of the largest natural crystals ever found. The cave is located around 980 feet (300 meters) deep ...

Microbes found in Mexico’s Cave of Crystals could be up to 50,000 years old, according to researchers with the NASA Astrobiological Institute. The researchers have confirmed the microbes had been ...

Geologist Juan Manuel García-Ruiz calls it "the Sistine Chapel of crystals," but Superman could call it home. A sort of south-of-the-border Fortress of Solitude, Mexico's Cueva de los Cristales (Cave ...

Microbes that may be between 10,000 and 50,000 years old have been revived from the inside of enormous, glittering crystals from a Mexican cave. The microbes come from the Cave of the Crystals within ...

In January 2006 Speleoresearch & Films and the Team la Venta started a three year exploration campain to discover the Naica cave, Chihuahua, Messico. "It seems like walking into an oven. You're hit by ...

The natural world is full of many fabulous and mysterious objects, but few of them can rival the truly gargantuan crystals resting nearly a thousand feet beneath the ground in Naica, Mexico. Those who ...

Crystals are the new black, and for good reason. The powerful minerals not only help balance out our energetic fields, thanks to their nearly perfect molecular structures, but they’re also just ...

The cover of the April issue of the journal Geology was breathtaking -- a geologist looking up at huge white crystals. Large as tree trunks, some of the crystals stretched from a cave's floor to its ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world’s hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook and Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter. In 2000, two miners drilling an excavation tunnel below Chihuahua, Mexico, ...

Crystals dwarf an explorer in Mexico’s Naica cave complex. (Photo by Alexander Van Driessche – CC BY 3.0) BOSTON – It sounds like a sci-fi tale: Scientists manage to revive strains of microbes that ...