July 14, 2016
Asian bats resist white nose fungus
White Nose Syndrome has devastated bats across North America in recent years, but possible genetic resistance to the fungus has now been …
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April 1, 2016
Bat signals
Bats, the only true-flight mammals, first appeared during the Early Eocene after a period of acute global warming known as the Paleocene-Eocene …
January 8, 2016
Fossilized melanin reveals bats' true colors
Studies of pigments preserved in fossil feathers have changed our perception of how colorful dinosaurs were. Now, researchers have revealed the …
June 16, 2015
Banana-preserving bacterium shows promise against bat-killing fungus
Since White Nose Syndrome began decimating bat colonies in New England in 2006, most of the news coming out of bat caves in the U.S. hasn’t been …
June 5, 2014
Southeastern caves shuttered to slow the spread of bat-killing disease
Since White Nose Syndrome was first identified in dead bats recovered from a cave in New York state in 2006, the mysterious fungal disease has …
January 5, 2012
New federal guidelines aim to combat bat-killing fungus
On May 17, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released a new nationwide plan to curb the spread of White Nose Syndrome (WNS), the mysterious …
January 5, 2012
Mysterious disease sounds the death knell for bats
These are dark days for bats. Hundreds of thousands of tiny white-nosed bats have died over the past few winters, falling to cave floors across …
January 5, 2012
Bats and white-nose syndrome = VA cavers, please stay out
Blogging on EARTH The name sounds pretty innocuous, but white-nose syndrome (WNS) is rapidly becoming very bad news for bats; in just a couple of …