"This is the chestnut blight of bats," Jim Kennedy says, as we drive toward Hubbard's Cave, a gray bat hibernaculum in central Tennessee. Kennedy is a biologist and a caver, employed by Bat ...

Mammoth Cave, the longest known cave in the world ... including the endangered Indiana and gray bats. A 2010 study in the journal Science predicted that the little brown bat—once one of the ...

Kansas is the home of 21 endangered species and another 29 that are threatened. The world has more than 7,000 endangered species, and the United States designates a species as threatened or ...

Also known as the Bat Cave on Lake Guntersville, Hambrick Cave is a TVA-managed site on the Tennessee River, about a mile upriver from Guntersville Dam. Home to one of the largest gray bat ...

The new leech species has three jaws, five pairs of eyes aligned in a U-shape, a disc-shaped “caudal sucker” for attachment, ...

The three species — Indiana bats, northern long-eared bats and gray bats — all rely on caves and other underground ... ignored the presence of caves and threats to endangered bat cave habitat when ...