The new cave-dwelling leech species is believed to exist solely on bat blood, according to researchers. Li, T. et al. (2025.) The leech’s specialized diet of bat blood has allowed it to survive ...

Deep inside a labyrinthine cave in southwestern France, ancient humans who lived around 30,000 years ago carved horses, mammoths and rhinoceros into the walls, a fabulous prehistoric menagerie ...

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The High Court has ruled that a report error concerning a bat located in a barn outside Ennis is not sufficient to halt contentious plans for a new 200MW €1.2 ...

New security cameras and a "comprehensive" management plan have been put in place at Koonalda Cave in SA's far west. The measures are in response to a 2022 incident, when the cave was broken into ...

The samples were mostly from stalagmites, which grow upward from a cave floor as mineral-infused water slowly drips on them (their counterparts, stalactites, grow down from the cave ceiling.) ...

Srp, as a private business owner, had learned that the state had placed restrictions on access by the County Clerk’s Office ...

Placing a mattress on the floor may be the rage among TikTok sleep hackers but not all mattresses are designed to be used that way. Worse yet, not using a bed base could void your mattress ...

The state has agreed to cover expenses for eliminating bat guano concerns in the courthouse. “I think that we knew that they historically had some concerns,” Supervisor Dan Srp said Monday.

Access by the public and the Clinton County Clerk’s Office to courthouse files has been restricted by the state of Iowa due to concerns of histoplasmosis from bat guano. Histoplasmosis ... bats were ...