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 fungal disease called white-nose syndrome has killed millions of North American cave-dwelling bats over the past decade. Now, scientists are field testing some promising treatments.

North Georgia cave opens for bat ... on a spelunking expedition to conduct research related to the white-nose syndrome wiping out millions of bats across North America, Asia and Europe. The cave ...

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.

Some eight species, or 18 percent of North American bats, are at risk of extinction, according to the study, with a further six species, or 13 percent, potentially at risk — making bats one of ...

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 ...

For bat populations across North America, hibernation now means death, as cave-dwelling bats are being decimated by an invasive fungus, causing what is commonly called white-nose syndrome.

White-nose syndrome was first discovered in North America in a cave complex often visited by people in upstate New York in February 2006. Since bats don't travel between Europe and North America, the ...

Plaguing these night-flying creatures is white-nose syndrome, a fungus that first appeared on North American soil in 2006 and affects mostly colonial cave-dwelling bats in the eastern U.S.

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 ...