The disease was likely introduced from Europe and has killed millions of bats. The first sighting of WNS in bats was in 2006 ...

The continued spread of a mysterious disease that has killed thousands of bats in the Northeast United States may have a surprising human cause. Scientists are suggesting that cavers may be ...

It’s late October, the end of mating season for bats. We’re tracking a female eastern small-footed bat, one of the Myotis (“mouse-eared”) species hit hardest by white-nose syndrome, or WNS, the ...

Dead and dying bats were first discovered three years ago in caves near Albany, New York, appearing to suffer from an inexplicable white fungus originating around their noses, ears, wing membranes, ...

Why are bats dying in North America? An estimated 6.7 million bats have died since 2006 because of an outbreak of white-nose syndrome, a fast-moving disease that has wiped out entire colonies and left ...

To see new threats to our bat populations like this is disturbing," said Angie McIntire, a specialist on Arizona bats for Game and Fish. A bat infected with WNS may display unusual behavior ...

Biologists have confirmed that bats in Pennsylvania are infected with a mysterious syndrome that has already killed thousands of bats throughout the Northeast over the past two years. White Nose ...

Scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China have discovered a new lineage of a coronavirus in bats that can enter human cells in a similar fashion as SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes ...

Tricolored bats are also threatened by human disturbance at hibernation and roost sites, wind energy, habitat loss, pesticides and climate change. The species' low reproductive rate constrains its ...