Four of the nine species of Adirondack bats belong to the genus Myotis, the mouse-eared bats. The little brown bat is the most abundant of the four, and is the common bat of the region. During the ...

The common name of this bat is an honor of the Reverend John Henry Keen who, in 1894, obtained the first specimen from which the species was described. Keen’s myotis is brown in color, darker above ...

Once the most common species of bat in Pennsylvania, the little brown bat is now endangered. However, there are things you can do to help. Steph Stronsick and Eric Morlock of the Pennsylvania Bat ...

During winter, in northern Canada, little brown bats go into a form of hibernation called torpor and only need to breathe once every 90 minutes to stay alive. A single bat can consume one third of ...

One winged creature stood out as it flew on a sunny afternoon near a viewing deck at the Eagle River Nature Center. It zigzagged over a flat, calm area of a stream’s open water. It seemed to ...

Biologists have confirmed that bats in Pennsylvania are infected with a mysterious syndrome that has already killed thousands of bats throughout the Northeast over the past two years. White Nose ...