- Carlsbad Caverns is home of many rare microbes that are found no were else in the world,It contains 80 limestone caverns that are spread throughout the park,carlsbad caverns are also called the 8th wonder in the world, And if you come to the park during may you can take pace in the bat fly that is when thousands of bats fly from the main enterence.
- Most of the formations—or speleothems—found inside Carlsbad Cavern today were active and growing during the last ice age when instead of having a desert above the cave, there were pine forests.
- Scientists are studying "extremophile" microbes in the highly protected and almost pristine Lechuguilla Cave that are leading scientists towards generating a possible cure for cancer
- The limestone rock that holds Carlsbad Cavern is full of ocean fossil plants and animals from a time before the dinosaurs when the southeastern corner of New Mexico was a coastline similar to the Florida Keys.
- Nearly 400,000 Brazilian (more commonly called Mexican) free-tail bats call Carlsbad Cavern home in the summer... and all they want to do each night is eat bugs... several tons of them each night!
- Bones from ice age animals like jaguars, camels, lions and giant sloths have been found in the entrance areas of some caves in Carlsbad Caverns National Park.