This 2005 photo supplied by the National Park Service shows the nightly exodus of bats from Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico. Through mid-October, thousands of bats swarm out of the ...

On Dec. 7, 1941, Adams made a fateful trip to the Carlsbad Caverns National Park during a vacation to New Mexico. He was awed by the hundreds of thousands of bats that nested in the caves.

Established on May 14, 1930, Carlsbad Caverns National Park is famous both for its elaborately decorated caves and the ...

It is one of the top things to do at Carlsbad, NM. Tour the Visitor Center See the Caverns on a Tour Take a Hike Check out the bats during the summer Go to a Night Sky Program Earn a Junior Ranger ...

One of the most notable sights at Carlsbad Cavern is the spectacle of the park’s 400,000 Brazilian free-tailed bats leaving the cave each night at sunset in dramatic clouds of flapping wings; visitors ...

They said it could have a similar effect on Carlsbad Caverns if the disease reaches New Mexico. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A disease that has killed millions of bats across the country may be heading ...

Adams was on vacation in the southwest at the famed Carlsbad Caverns, home to excellent spelunking and about a million bats. Adams had been particularly impressed with the bats during his time in ...

Dr. Lytle S. Adams, a dentist from Pennsylvania, came up with the idea of turning bats into an attack force. Adams had just returned from a vacation in Carlsbad Caverns and was impressed by the ...

One of the guano miners, James Larkin White, became the first to explore and publicize the caverns beyond Bat Cave. The park is off US 62/180, 20 miles southwest of Carlsbad and 164 miles east of ...

Carlsbad -- carved out of limestone by the slow ... to be hoisted into the cave in large buckets once used to mine bat guano. Today, people can walk in the natural entrance some 1-1/4 miles ...