A year later, people began to report something peculiar: little brown bats flying outside nearby caves during daylight in the midst of winter. A little brown bat is a tiny creature, smaller than a ...

Globally, caves provide important refugia for bats. The Grand Canyon, more than 400 km (250 mi) long, consists of steep-sided, rocky formations with hundreds to thousands of natural caves. Two of ...

That’s costlier and harms the environment. Bat poop is also an essential source of nutrients in cave environments supporting salamanders, fish, crayfish and other unique creatures. In less than a ...

you’ll reach a rustic wooden entrance with a few steps beyond it leading you into the 260-million-year-old limestone cave, which was formerly a literal bat cave before it was turned into the ...