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 ...

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.

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 ...

When P. destructans suddenly appeared in North America in the early 2000s, the bats there were ill-equipped to handle the new disease. ... People should not move cave equipment between countries, ...

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 ...

White-nose syndrome is killing off many bat colonies across North America. The same disease is decimating the northern long-eared bat population, which is also on the brink of extinction.

Mexican free-tailed bats fly out of Frio Cave, Texas, on April 6, 2024. Photographer Babak Tafreshi used a fish-eye lens and soft flashes to create this single-exposure image of 30 seconds.

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.

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 ...

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 ...