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Spooky season means seeing more bats than usual out in the streets. There'll be paper and plastic bats hanging from front porches and taped to railings as part of Halloween decorations, and surely the ...

It's hard out there for a bat: not only do the flying mammals suffer from a terrible public image (bats do not, as rumor has it, roost in hair or necessarily carry rabies) but their very existence is ...

A deadly fungal disease called "white nose syndrome" is sweeping across North America, wiping out millions of bats. Dave Malkoff goes underground in North Carolina as scientists race to save these ...

After avoiding it for nearly two decades, wildlife officials say that the illness wiping out millions of bats may have reached Nevada. The fungal disease is known as white-nose syndrome, and it’s ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. It’s a known problem that onshore wind turbines kill bats. But it’s unclear whether ...

As a deadly fungal disease sweeps across North America, wiping out millions of bats, scientists are pioneering a bold new strategy to protect these special creatures. As a deadly fungal disease sweeps ...

The fungus linked to a devastating decline in U.S. bat populations has spread to Oregon, with federal scientists reporting they have detected it for the first time in the Beaver State. The fungus in ...