the eastern small-footed bat has been faced over the past few years with a new threat, called white-nose syndrome, that has made it even scarcer. White-nose syndrome is a newly emergent fungal disease ...

Big brown bats frequently reside in attics, walls, and basements of buildings, in hollow trees, caves, and mines. Throughout most of its range, this species is relatively common. However, there are ...

has only one known home in the world One of the world's rarest bats is now confined to a single cave in Western Cuba with less than 750 remaining, according to a population survey. Scientists are ...

Why it's awesome: Deep inside one of Gabon's cave systems lives an unusual population of orange dwarf crocodiles. They live in complete darkness, feast on bats and swim in liquid guano (aka bat poop.) ...

The bowstrings come from Cueva de Los Murciélagos, or "Bat Cave," an extensive, stalactite-studded cave system in Albuñol, a town in the province of Granada. In the 1800s, miners in the cave ...