A family from Georgia, Texas and Washington visited a cave in Costa Rica while on vacation and began developing symptoms of a ...

Mandelli’s mouse-eared bat, Kashmir cave myotis, chocolate pipistrelle, and the eastern long-winged bat. One of these 29 species, however, did not fit the taxonomic descriptions of the others or ...

In 2020, an infected cave myotis—a type of evening bat—was found dead in Central Texas. Pseudogymnoascus destructans, which thrives in cold, dark and damp environments and affects mostly small ...

A little brown bat (Myotis lucifugus) is seen with white fuzz ... Department of Environmental Conservation In February 2006, a cave explorer near Albany, New York, took the first photograph ...

Explore a lesser-known caver's paradise in this Oklahoma state park where you can see rare, natural gypsum with a guided tour ...

Against all odds, bats are surprisingly long-lived and rarely develop tumors. Understanding why could unlock new cancer ...

The two tracked a population of about 1,000 cave myotis bats at Kartchner Caverns shortly after the caverns’ existence was revealed in the late 1980s. Using another bat-friendly gate ...

Video from a national park in Uganda depicted a parade of predatory species feeding on and dispersing fruit bats that are known natural reservoirs of infectious diseases.

Bats live long, cancer-free lives using extra tumor-fighting genes and stable immune systems. This may unlock new ways to ...

It’s long been a puzzle. Cancer is, statistically speaking, a disease of aging. The longer something lives, the more likely ...

Scientists caught a “long”-tailed creature in a trap in a forest of India and discovered an “elusive” new species, a study said. Photo shared by Rohit Chakravarty Under a cover of darkness ...