Bats aren't the cutest creatures, but without them there'd be a lot more bugs. FRANKLIN, W.Va., April 3, 2009 — -- A mysterious fungus is killing off thousands of bats around the country.

A fungal disease threatening the survival of bats throughout the U.S. was found in a southeast New Mexico cave for the first time in the region, and officials are stepping up efforts to prevent its ...

For nearly two decades, scientists have watched white-nose syndrome tear through North American bat colonies while trying to explain how a dusting of fungus could be so deadly. Recent work now ...

Millions of bats in North America have died from white-nose syndrome, and a new study from the University of Waterloo ...

A fungus that has killed millions of bats in the eastern United States had been found in Californa, state wildlife officials recently reported. California Department of Fish and Wildlife officials say ...

Fungus-coated bats are spreading deadly disease in Washington state’s San Juan Island National Historical Park, according to park officials. Three Yuma Myotis bats tested positive for the fungus that ...

"Protecting these maternity roosts, or promoting them where they do not yet exist, is an important part of conservation." Now a recent study in the journal Science offers a glimmer of hope to bat-fans ...

Wildlife officials say the fungal disease known as white-nose syndrome has spread to seven more counties in Western Washington and four in Eastern Washington. The fungus that causes white-nose ...

PHOENIX — A bat sampled by biologists at Fort Huachuca near Sierra Vista in 2024 tested positive for the fungus that causes white-nose syndrome (WNS) disease in bats. The bat, a cave myotis, was found ...

Students at Berlin High School are working on limiting the effects of white-nose syndrome, a deadly disease in bat populations across the U.S.