An estimated 6.7 million bats have died since 2006 because of an outbreak of white-nose syndrome, a fast-moving disease that has wiped out entire colonies and left caves littered with the bones of ...

Bats across Rocky Mountain National Park are facing a fatal disease due to an invasive fungus, according to park officials.

The most studied subject of all at the Devil’s Sinkhole is the Mexican free-tailed bat, a cherished mammal by farmers in these parts for all the bugs that they eat. We’re told that was the main ...

Aya Goldshtein, Omer Mazar, and Yossi Yovel have spent many evenings standing outside bat caves. Even so, seeing thousands of bats erupting out of a cave and flapping into the night, sometimes in ...

The new leech species has three jaws, five pairs of eyes aligned in a U-shape, a disc-shaped “caudal sucker” for attachment, ...

To date, the TPWD has found evidence of disease in three species: the tri-colored bat, the cave myotis, and Townsend’s big-eared bat. This is the first detection of the fungus in either of the latter ...

Rocky Mountain National Park is asking visitors to take precautions to protect the bat population after an invasive fungus was found in the park.