White patches of fungus can be seen on this northern long-eared bat affected by white-nose syndrome in Illinois. (Photo by J.R. Hoyt) UC Santa Cruz graduate student Joseph Hoyt releases a little brown ...

Park officials at Rocky Mountain National Park have confirmed the first case of white-nose syndrome in a bat in Grand County, providing evidence that the fatal fungus-caused disease may be pushing ...

Bats have a bad reputation for carrying nasty diseases—and biology has a reason for this! While it's certainly not their ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A fungus that has killed ...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Officials with the U.S. Forest Service are cautiously optimistic that a new treatment may help bats survive a disease known as white-nose syndrome that has killed millions of bats.

The spike isn’t unique to Ventura County. Positive tests have risen across the state. At least 65 bats with rabies have been ...

Bats have a bad reputation, but they deserve better. The flying mammals are nature’s pest control, swooping over America’s farmland every night to feast on swarms of insects that would otherwise chew ...

Bat populations in some places in North America appear to have developed resistance to the deadly fungal disease known as white-nose syndrome. Researchers from UC Santa Cruz analyzed infection data ...

Scientists have been puzzled about a strange disease that began attacking bats in New York state in 2006. The bats would suddenly awaken from hibernation in midwinter, their faces covered in a white ...