Also known as the western big-eared bat, the long-eared bat, and the lump-nosed bat, its appearance is defined by a pair of outsize ears and a lump-adorned nose. These bats, whose bodies are ...

The following species have been infected by white-nose syndrome: little brown bat (once the most common bat in the eastern United States), northern long-eared bat (threatened), tricolored bat, Indiana ...

Then in 2007 a perplexing and deadly new threat to bats, a fungal disease called white-nose syndrome, appeared in the Northeast ... a few miles away from a major hibernating site for Virginia ...

Minnesota bat populations are dropping at the hands of a fungal disease, heightening concern among experts for a federally-listed endangered species. White-nose syndrome is being attributed for ...