White-nose syndrome caused millions of bat deaths, and scientists are sounding the alarm that a second fungus could be disastrous if it reaches American wildlife ...

A bat suspected of having white-nose syndrome clings to a cave wall in Mammoth Cave National Park in Mammoth Cave, Kentucky. The disease that has killed more than 6 million cave-dwelling bats in the ...

Cadomin Cave is Alberta’s largest known bat hibernaculum. The cave, among the largest in the Canadian Rockies, ... The oldest known bat in North America once roosted in this chamber.

This pattern is reminiscent of the spread of diseases that ravaged American Indian people when Europeans first colonized. White-nose syndrome was first discovered in North America in upstate New York ...

How a discarded bag of Cheetos is threatening a cave’s delicate ecosystem, home to bats and insects. Staff at Caverns National Park in New Mexico scorned the unknown visitor and warned how the ...

Ali Rogin: For nearly two decades, bats across North America have been decimated by a deadly disease called White-Nose Syndrome. Patches of pale white fuzz caused by a fungus appear on infected bats.

Scientists have found a new population of endangered, cave-dwelling bats in a part of Alabama where there are no caves. The previously unknown population could be a ray of hope for the northern ...

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. - More than half of North America's bat species are likely to diminish significantly as climate change, disease and habitat loss take their toll, scientists warned Monday. A ...

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. - More than half of North America's bat species are likely to diminish significantly as climate change, disease and habitat loss take their toll, scientists warned Monday. A ...

Millions of bats throughout North America have died from white-nose syndrome since it was discovered in 2018, with both professional and amateur chiropterologists despairing for an effective ...

In February 2006, a cave explorer near Albany, New York, took the first photograph of bats with a mysterious white growth on their faces. Later, biologists studying the mammals in caves and mines ...