Southwest Texas is the location of some pretty amazing parks, and I had the opportunity to visit two of them: Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico and Guadalupe Mountains National Park in ...

Another image that routinely appears on social media feeds suggests the exhaustion a bat might feel hanging upside down for ...

Each spring, millions of Mexican free-tailed bats fly from under the Congress Avenue Bridge, but they weren't always welcome ...

Photo: Ainslie Cruickshank / The Narwhal Biologist Cori Lausen sweeps bat feces, called guano, from a picnic table in the workshop ... its toll is plain in the piles of small bodies littering cave ...

Guano from the swiftlets and the cave’s numerous bats nourishes a diverse range of specialized species that feed on the feces. Snakes that can scale vertical cliffs to snare a passing meal and ...

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

Rocky Mountain National Park announced April 3 that lab tests conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey confirmed that a fungus ...

Sinospelaeobdella jiangxiensis, or the jiangxiensis land leech, “lives on the roofs and sidewalls of wet karstic caves close to the bat populations coexisting in the same area,” researchers said.