A fungal disease threatening the survival of bats throughout the U.S. was found in a southeast New Mexico cave for the first time in the region, and officials are stepping up efforts to prevent its ...

Jutting out into Lake Superior is the Keweenaw Peninsula, home to Michigan’s Copper Country. This is where the earliest known ...

Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials said that two little brown bats with white-nose syndrome were found recently in Boulder County. Little brown bats are an endangered species of bat found in Canada ...

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 ...

MONTPELIER -- A biologist who has studied the decline in Vermont's bat populations since white nose syndrome started killing tens of thousands almost a decade ago says he thinks the worst of the ...

"Protecting these maternity roosts, or promoting them where they do not yet exist, is an important part of conservation." Now a recent study in the journal Science offers a glimmer of hope to bat-fans ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — While centuries of folklore and various legends have led to bats being considered creepy critters, the tiny, winged mammals are actually harmless, and play an important role ...

Bats aren't the cutest creatures, but without them there'd be a lot more bugs. FRANKLIN, W.Va., April 3, 2009 — -- A mysterious fungus is killing off thousands of bats around the country.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — On this Friday the 13th, spooky creatures like bats may come to mind. But, bats have had plenty to fear themselves in the past 15 years. A disease called white-nose syndrome ...