A Mexican free-tailed bat. Once we were inside it was dead silent. The cave is home to 20 million bats in the summer, but in winter they are happily drinking Piña coladas on a beach in Mexico.

Bats across Indiana are waking from hibernation and moving out of their caves in search of food. These flying mammals play a vital role in Indiana’s ecosystem and even its economy. Feeding on ...

The Illinois Department of Natural Resources closed the cave in 2010 in an effort to slow the spread of white nose syndrome, a fungus that kills bats. It reopened this June to visitors.

The species migrates from Mexico and female free-tails form maternity colonies where they give birth to a single baby. The free-tails make the Phoenix bat cave their summer home, from which they ...

Python Cave is home to as many as 50,000 Egyptian fruit bats, and the predators emerged from the cave with a winged snack, which they either hunted or scavenged, in their mouths.

The storm tunnel, dubbed the “Phoenix Bat Cave” on Google Maps, runs alongside the Arizona Canal near North 37th Place. The partially-underground, 16.5 mile-long stretch of concrete tunnel ...

A huge swarm of bats flying out of a massive Mexican cave in unison has gone viral on Reddit. The video, posted to Reddit by user u/Erne385291 and originally put online by Twitter user ...

While no evidence of white nose syndrome was yet detected at the Caverns, it is home to about 400,000 Brazilian free-tail bats between May and October, that migrate to New Mexico and could spread ...

MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) - Wisconsin’s cave bats are in rapid decline. Now the DNR is looking at new restrictions on wind turbines to help save the bats. Cave bats serve an important role in ...

Bat Conservation International has purchased the land where the cave is located and approximately 1,500 acres around the cave, also known as the Galo Tract, “to conserve not only the bats, but ...

Not all bats have rabies, she said, and you have to be bit by a rabid bat to get it. Most sick bats end up on the ground so the ones flying past your head probably won’t cause you any harm.