The skin of dwarf crocodiles found living in a cave in Gabon is turning orange from swimming in guano. It's unclear how long ...

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 ...

This story appears in the September 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Several years ago, on assignment for National Geographic, I ventured inside a cave in Uganda to photograph a roost ...

Bats are nocturnal, meaning they are most active at night. During the day, bats roost in caves, under the bark of large trees and other places. One of the most unusual things about bats, besides the ...

But when the chill months come and insects disappear, torpor comes over them and with it a longing for their own cave, the same spot where they have spent previous winters. Bats sometimes fly 100 ...

MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) - Wisconsin’s cave bats are in rapid decline. Now the state Department of Natural Resources is looking at new restrictions on wind turbines to help save the bats.

Instead, it hitches rides on bats. First discovered in the Tan Phu cave—part of a lava-tube cave system in Vietnam—these creatures belong to a rare group of cockroaches that have carved a ...