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 ...

Seventeen years ago, two brothers who worked for Industrias Peñoles were mining a tunnel underneath the Naica Mountain in Chihuahua, Mexico. They accidentally stumbled upon the Sistine Chapel of ...

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 ...

Penelope Boston, then a professor at New Mexico Tech, sits on a giant selenite crystal in the Naica Mine in Chihuahua, Mexico, with colleague Danielle Winget. In 2009, Boston and her team used sterile ...

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 ...

Giant crystals found in Naica min in Chihuahua, Mexico stand up to 36 feet tall and have measured over three feet wide. NASA/METI/AIST/Japan Space Systems, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team ...

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Mexico's caves appear to be filled with secrets just waiting to be discovered. A breathtaking geological marvel buried deep within the Earth has been dubbed the "best kept and most breathtaking secret ...

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 ...