hot spring

The amenities on offer include a hot spring, golf, table tennis and plenty of walking paths.

"This is more hideous than a group picture of some kind of a seniors' club during a trip to a hot spring. It's utterly embarrassing," one user wrote on X.

It’s the first known injury caused this year by Yellowstone’s hot springs, which have claimed at least 22 lives since 1890, park officials have said.

However, they add that this initial study has shown there is clear potential for novel natural products contained within its hot springs to be explored further for that purpose.

The earliest firm evidence for freshwater is much younger: mounds of sediment and fossilized microbes called stromatolites that formed in hot springs 3.5 billion years ago.