Forget birdhouses — starting Wednesday, workshops at the Phoenix Bat Cave can show you how to build a bat house in your own front lawn. But if the idea of hosting bats is a little much, the Bat Cave ...

Twelve of 13 members of one family fell ill upon returning to the United States from a Costa Rica trip in late December. A ...

A bat cave in Costa Rica is likely the reason a family caught a fungal lung disease known as histoplasmosis. In December of last year, a family of 13 visited Arenal and Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica, ...

BAT CAVE – Situated where three rivers and highways converge, the small community of Bat Cave got “the worst of it” when Tropical Storm Helene brought record flooding and numerous landslides to the ...

ELY, Nev. — A crew of five wildlife biologists wearing overalls, helmets and headlamps walked up the flanks of a juniper-studded mountain and climbed through stout steel bars to enter an abandoned ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Buried deep within caves, bats — and especially their ...

America's caves may not need permanent closure to protect their bat populations, now that researchers have a better understanding of a bat-killing disease. An article in the scientific journal Nature ...

A dozen family members — including one as young as eight — were sickened by histoplasmosis after coming in contact with bat droppings in a cave Getty Twelve people on a family vacation last December ...

Oregon’s bat populations could soon face a serious threat after the fungus that causes white-nose syndrome was detected in guano collected at Lewis and Clark National Historical Park on the state’s ...