Jutting out into Lake Superior is the Keweenaw Peninsula, home to Michigan’s Copper Country. This is where the earliest known ...

Washington state is home to 15 species of bats and Washington authorities are urgently hunting down new cases of white-nose syndrome that is attacking bats during hibernation. White-nose syndrome, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CARLSBAD, N.M. (KRQE) – Samples from Cottonwood Cave in Eddy County tested positive for Pseudogymnoascus destructans (Pd), the ...

A fungus that has killed millions of bats in the eastern United States had been found in Californa, state wildlife officials recently reported. California Department of Fish and Wildlife officials say ...

White-nose syndrome is the result of a fungus called Pseudogymnoascus destructans, which invades and ingests the skin of hibernating bats, including the wings. It causes bats to wake up more ...

PHOENIX — A bat sampled by biologists at Fort Huachuca near Sierra Vista in 2024 tested positive for the fungus that causes white-nose syndrome (WNS) disease in bats. The bat, a cave myotis, was found ...

A fungal disease threatening the survival of bats throughout the U.S. was found in a southeast New Mexico cave for the first time in the region, and officials are stepping up efforts to prevent its ...

Wildlife officials say the fungal disease known as white-nose syndrome has spread to seven more counties in Western Washington and four in Eastern Washington. The fungus that causes white-nose ...

A bat suspected of having white-nose syndrome clings to a cave wall in Mammoth Cave National Park in Mammoth Cave, Kentucky. The disease that has killed more than 6 million cave-dwelling bats in the ...

LIBBY, Mont. — Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks officials detected a fungus causing white-nose syndrome fungus on two bats captured at Libby Dam. FWP says this is concerning as it’s the first ...

Bats aren't the cutest creatures, but without them there'd be a lot more bugs. FRANKLIN, W.Va., April 3, 2009 — -- A mysterious fungus is killing off thousands of bats around the country.