In February 2006, a cave explorer near Albany, New York, took the first photograph of bats with a mysterious white growth on ...

Bats in Europe and Asia can tolerate a fungus that has wiped out North American populations.Credit...Sebastien J. Puechmaille Origins Scientists have learned that another species of fungus found ...

(The report also says 53% of North American bat species are estimated to have moderate to very high risk of extinction in the next 15 years due to factors such as climate change.) Both Bennett and ...

A study published in the journal Nature has analyzed 5,000 samples of a fungus that is responsible for the largest recorded ...

According to the 2023 North American State of the Bats report, white-nose syndrome is a major threat, with 12 North American bat species known to be susceptible to the disease. (The report also ...

But a new study published last week raised the possibility that North American bats could get slammed by a second wave of white-nose disease. An extensive genetic survey has found that ...

As they surveyed colonies of hibernating bats, they discovered heaps of dead animals on the floors of caves and abandoned mines. The culprit was a fungus new to science. It caused white-nose ...