A deadly fungal disease that has put at least one bat species on the federal Endangered Species List has been detected in ...

Quick Take Bats have lost a majority of their fat reserves when they wake in March. If bats wake before March, they face ...

A disease that has devastated North American bat populations for nearly 20 years has been confirmed in Idaho bats for the ...

Officials announced the detection of Pseudogymnoascus destructans, the fungus that causes the disease, in 2025.

Two Columbia County bats and one Benton County bat have tested positive for white-nose syndrome, an invasive fungus thought ...

A Little Brown Myotis and Long-eared Myotis (also known as Western Long-eared Bat) collected in 2025 from Bonner County, and one bat collected in 2026 from Kootenai County, tested positive for ...

A unique infectious disease prevention strategy has emerged that uses mosquitoes to deliver vaccines to bats. The method ...

The state Department of Natural Resources says over-winter surveillance shows white-nose syndrome or the fungus that causes it is now present in eight counties. The agency announced Thursday that bats ...

In the shadows of Python Cave, Uganda, a leopard leaps from a guano mound—formed by bat excrement—and sinks its teeth into a bat. But this is no ordinary bat colony. The thousands of Egyptian fruit ...

In a proof-of-concept study, researchers tested a novel approach to mitigate deadly bat-borne viruses from jumping into ...

But scientists say there are practical and ethical challenges to overcome before the strategy could be deployed in real-world settings.