An "out of control" wildfire fire has been reported off of Bat Cave Road south of Old Fort in McDowell County.

US President Donald Trump says that wind farms harm birds and whales. Scientists weigh wind power's impacts on wildlife against those of oil and gas.

Millions flocked to the 1851 Great Exhibition in Hyde Park to marvel at the world’s treasures — from priceless diamonds to ...

Bats in the noctilionoid group, like Darwin’s finches, have evolved an impressive variety of jaw and tooth adaptations to ...

"When we were approaching a cave in March of 2011, and we saw all of these dead bats in the snow we knew exactly what we were facing and how devastating it was going to be," she said. Karen ...

In the end, Livingstone Shire Council didn’t have to make a choice between approving a major quarry expansion or protecting a dwindling bat species. Cr Rhodes Watson, who inspected The Caves ...

Vanderwolf said the fungus — Pseudogymnoascus destructans — that causes white-nose syndrome spread to the Maritimes faster than expected and resulted in the loss of 99 per cent of hibernating bats ...

"The population has plateaued, and in fact, in some sites in Nova Scotia, in some of the caves, we are seeing a few more bats than we used to see a few years ago." Karen Vanderwolf says there ...

Bats carry viral pathogens that typically do not lead to severe disease in the bats themselves but can be lethal to humans. Adaptations in certain immune genes might contribute to this resistance.