Germany Founds National Bat Science Organisation
Bundesverband für Fledermauskunde Deutschland (BVF), a German national umbrella organisation for bat workers and conservation was founded in early February.
Bundesverband für Fledermauskunde Deutschland (BVF), a German national umbrella organisation for bat workers and conservation was founded in early February.
Follow along for a quick glimpse of the epic Hirlatzhöhle, a 101 kilometer (62 mile) long and 1.07 kilometer (3,510 foot) deep cave in the Dachstein Mountains of Austria.
New genetic research provides the strongest evidence yet that Pseudogymnoascus destructans, the fungus that causes White-nose Syndrome in bats, originated in Europe.
A five-year U.S. Army project to create critical habitat for bats will clear brush and plant fruit trees in Germany’s Hohenfels Military Training Area. The project, funded by the European …
New research into bat echolocation calls has revealed that they contain much more information than is needed to hunt or find their way around in the dark. The study, undertaken …
Scientists have discovered two prehistoric flutes at Geissenkloesterle Cave in Germany’s Swabian Jura region. The flutes, made of bird bone and mammoth ivory, have been dated to between 42,000 and …
An international team of researchers studying viruses in Germany have discovered that bats act as a natural host for paramyxoviruses, the family of viruses responsible for measles, mumps, pneumonias and …
For the large cave spider, 2012 is poised to be an exciting year. Having recently been voted as both the 2012 European Spider of the Year and the German Cave …
Recent research by scientists at the Universities of Bristol and Munich have given us a better understanding of how bat echolocation works. The study, which involved placing objects in a …
A cave discovered three years ago beneath Germany’s Thuringian Forest is the subject of a search to find an alternate entrance, after the original one was sealed up. During construction …