Bats across Indiana are waking from hibernation and moving out of their caves in search of food. These flying mammals play a vital role in Indiana’s ecosystem and even its economy. Feeding on beetles, ...

That’s how many Indiana bats are known to be living in CNY according to results of a New York State Department of Environmental Conservation field survey conducted in the beginning of the year.

Bats get a bad rap. Thanks to the likes of Bram Stoker and visions of vampiric, blood thirsty creatures, the only mammals that can truly fly are unduly denoted as fearsome, sometimes creepy creatures.

A tiny female bat weighing no more than 10 paper clips has completed the longest-known migration of her species in a single season, according to the Pennsylvania Game Commission. The Indiana bat, a ...

On a hot (and buggy) July afternoon, Vermont Fish and Wildlife biologist Alyssa Bennett and summer intern Emily Paribello are traipsing through the woods. They’re each holding up big radio antennas, ...

Clay, N.Y. – Micron Technology has found two species of endangered bats on the wooded site where the company plans to build one of the nation’s largest semiconductor plants. The presence of the ...

The fur of the Indiana bat is a dull grayish brown on the upper part of the body, and only slightly paler below. The texture of the fur is fine and fluffy, and each dorsal hair is tricolored: blackish ...

Indiana bats hibernate in a cave in southwestern Vermont. Photo courtesy of Vermont Fish and Wildlife Wildlife biologists in Vermont have discovered a hopeful sign for the state’s Indiana bat ...

Wallier Woods in the Harrison County Glades Conservation Area spans more than 5,300 acres of forests, caves, streams and cliffs overlooking the Ohio River. Jug Hole Cave, not far away in Harrison ...