Scientists have learned that another species of fungus found in Europe and Asia causes white-nose disease, which has ravaged bat populations in the United States and Canada. A cluster of greater ...

White-nose syndrome caused millions of bat deaths, and scientists are sounding the alarm that a second fungus could be disastrous if it reaches American wildlife ...

A northern long-eared bat, seen here, has been hit hard by white-nose syndrome. The fungal disease has killed millions of bats across North America. (AP) A deadly pandemic has decimated bats in ...

Millions of bats throughout North America have died from white-nose syndrome since it was discovered in 2018, ... "We created a cell line from an endangered bat species ...

One fungus, two species, millions of dead bats: A study published in the journal Nature has analyzed 5,000 samples of a fungus that is responsible for the largest recorded pathogen-caused ...

Experts estimated that 52% of bats species are at risk of severe decline in the next 15 years, according to a 2023 report from the North American Bat Conservation Alliance.

The two species of fungi seem to specialize on certain species of bats, although Puechmaille’s team has discovered some individual bats in Europe infected with both Pd-1 and Pd-2. The North ...

In February 2006, a cave explorer near Albany, New York, took the first photograph of bats with a mysterious white growth on their faces. Later, biologists studying the mammals in caves and mines ...