White-nose Syndrome is decimating hibernating bat populations across the northeastern United States. In the past three years, it has killed a million or more bats with mortality approaching 100 percent at some hibernation caves. Now, as we approach another winter, this mystifying disease is on the edge of the American South. Some of the largest hibernation sites for endangered gray myotis – and other bat species – are in its path.

Time is running out. Entire species are potentially at risk across North America if solutions are not found soon. And Congress is doing little to help. BCI Founder Merlin Tuttle and other leading bat scientists...more

Male Mexican free-tailed bats serenade females with rather remarkable love songs – complex compositions of syllables and phrases that sound like a series of chirps, trills and buzzes, scientists told the Austin American-Statesman...more

After hanging motionless for a spell, the bat suddenly stretches, catlike, unfurling first one wing, then the other. It yawns widely and extends its tongue. And keeps extending it – longer and longer in a remarkable display. This is a tube-lipped nectar bat, and its tongue, at full-stretch, reaches more than 1½ times its body length.

The bat in a screened-in tent in Ecuador laps sugar-water from the bottom of a plastic test tube, contributing to Nathan Muchhala’s efforts to determine why evolution produced such a spectacular tongue...more