When the North American Bat Conservation Alliance (NABCA) released its first ever State of Bats report this spring, it was intended as a baseline record of how bat species in North America were faring ...

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Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage than loading CBC Lite story pages. Bats don't exactly have a glowing public image. After all, they're associated with blood-sucking ...

This northern ghost bat (Diclidurus albus) was a special, rare find for the bat scientists gathered in Belize. “It was magical,” says evolutionary biologist Jasmin Camacho. It's late in the day on a ...

Bats are also infamous as carriers of deadly pathogens, a reputation which even bat enthusiasts admit is not entirely undeserved. “Bats are reservoirs for viruses that cause the highest case fatality ...

DORSET — Deep in a cool, damp cave in Vermont, tens of thousands of furry, chocolate brown creatures stir. The little brown bats, survivors of a deadly fungus that decimated their population, went ...

A fungus that causes white nose syndrome in bats has swept across the United States killing millions of bats a year. Some little brown bats have survived hibernation and began creeping out of their ...

Bats are an important part of our environment and provide us with many benefits, including insect control and fertilizer. However, bat populations in the United States are being threatened by the ...

Six new species of bat have been discovered in time for Halloween. The tube-nosed bats were identified in the protected forests of the Philippines by an international research team. They say the ...

DENVER (KDVR) — A sick bat found on a bike path in Longmont indicates a much larger issue for Colorado’s bat population. According to Colorado Parks and Wildlife, a “little brown bat” found crawling ...