As darkness falls and the air begins to cool, thousands of bats burst from the narrow mouth of their cave. The sky comes alive with their flapping wings, filling the air like a living liquid. It's a ...

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 ...

The image of the bat with blood and feathers around its mouth perfectly illustrates the story now published in Science by an international research team. After nearly 25 years of research, the mystery ...