CARLSBAD, N.M. (KRQE) –Guano. If you look into the history of Carlsbad Caverns, you will most likely come across this term. In fact, some of the early visitors to the large underground cave system ...

Bat guano — a.k.a., droppings — preserves evidence of past fires, a recent analysis suggests, providing an “unconventional” record that could help scientists learn more about fire history. The study, ...

Every evening, millions of bats swarm out of a single cave in Texas, making it one of the most stunning natural phenomena to ...

Credit: unsplash Believe it or not, bat guano played a role in the American Civil War. The Confederates cut off from gunpowder supplies and mined bat caves for saltpeter (potassium nitrate). This was ...

EDWARDS COUNTY, Texas – Special thanks to Geary Schindel, his volunteer crew of climbers, researchers and Texas Parks and Wildlife for this incredible experience. Right place, right time. That’s how I ...

In the shadows of Python Cave, Uganda, a leopard leaps from a guano mound—formed by bat excrement—and sinks its teeth into a bat. But this is no ordinary bat colony. The thousands of Egyptian fruit ...

Bat guano, the accumulation of bat excreta, has emerged as an invaluable archive for deciphering both natural and anthropogenic changes in the environment. As a composite record of dietary choices, ...

BENSON, Ariz. — Deep inside the dark, damp caves of Kartchner Caverns State Park lies something that sounds more suited to a fairy tale than to a rock formation. The so-called Big Room holds the world ...

RATCHABURI, Thailand (Reuters) - Thai villagers scouring a dark cave for bat guano, sought after by farmers as a nutrient-rich crop fertiliser, are undaunted by scientists' suggestion that it could be ...