West Virginia is home to fourteen species of bats, from the common big brown bat to the very rare Rafinesque’s big-eared bat.

White-nose syndrome caused millions of bat deaths, and scientists are sounding the alarm that a second fungus could be ...

A tri-color bat is shown covered with condensation. Tricolor bats are commonly found hibernating in high humidity areas and can be found covered in water crystals. A cluster of big brown bats ...

Students at a northwestern New Brunswick school are being sent to other locations for the rest of the school year due to an infestation of endangered bats. David McTimoney, the superintendent of ...

Blejwas said the animal is almost certainly a little brown bat, a species that is 3 to 4.5 inches long with an 8- to 9-inch wingspan. Little browns are the most common bat in Alaska and across ...

The new animals on the list include the little brown bat, barn owl, green sea turtle and Atlantic sturgeon. The announcement by the state Department of Environmental Protection was part of a ...

FILE - This undated photo from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows little brown bats with the fuzzy white patches of fungus typical of white nose syndrome, which affects at least 12 species ...

WHIDBEY ISLAND, WASH. — The first time Tom Riecken caught a big brown bat, there was screaming. Riecken and his wife, Mackenzie Powell, were pulling down walls in the attic of their new house ...

Janette Perez-Jimenez, a graduate student at the University of Cincinnati, untangles a little brown bat from a net in eastern Ohio for tissue and genetic sampling.Credit... Supported by By Carl ...

Cohen arrived after roughly 15 minutes and soon isolated the bat in another room. Cohen identified the animal as a large brown bat and said she noticed it seemed “off” in its behavior ...

So do little brown bats ‒ more than a thousand of them. The bats, which on average weigh less than an ounce and are about 3 inches in length, roost underneath the siding on the lake side of the ...

York Region has confirmed its first case of rabies this year after a bat tested positive for the virus. The region said in a news release that the bat tested positive for the rabies virus in ...