In this paper, we focus on the period of 1998–2018 CE (green box) to calibrate charcoal preserved in Cripps Mill Cave guano as a paleofire proxy. Credit: Geophysical Research Letters (2024). DOI ...

Ancient Bat Guano Reveals Thousands of Years of Human Impact ... by swooping down from the walls and defecating on the cave floor. “People might think of guano as just a big pile of crap ...

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 ...

Cadomin Cave is Alberta’s largest known bat hibernaculum. The cave, among the largest in the Canadian Rockies, is a critical hibernation site for hundreds of bats — three species use the cave ...

Bats roosting in caves produce ample guano, which may explain why prehistoric marks left by humans cannot be found in some places where they are expected. By Michael Price Hunting scenes ...

The cave is assembled from prefabricated concrete sections. At 78 feet (23.7 meters) long and 16 feet (4.8 meters) wide, it is about the size of a single-wide mobile home.

Bat guano, elephant dung, ... the bat cave. He added that he ... Then at the end of the day, pine-chip bedding is strewn across the floor, like an elephant turndown service.

“There are two new species of streptomyces spp. identified from bat guano in Cabalyorisa Cave that were not yet seen from any other sources, thus, they are considered novel species.

Bat guano and bird feces coat the hand railing of the walkway in the Gomantong Cave. For cockroaches, this concoction is a delicacy, but there's a tiny, tiny chance a dangerous virus lurks inside.

The guano is question is located in Jamaica's Home Away from Home Cave. Five species of bats have simultaneously inhabited the cave over the past 4,300 years, continuously depositing successive ...

They attribute this to lots and lots of bat guano falling on the cave floor over many years. “Given the many thousands of bat fossils occurring in the same deposit, ...

Bat guano yields ‘unconventional’ historical fire data, scientists say. The guano in question was collected from Cripps Mill Cave in Tennessee, a limestone cave home to gray bats and Indiana bats.