Field workers spread locally-sourced bat guano fertilizer on biodynamically grown marijuana plants at the SPARC cannabis farm in Glen Ellen, Calif. on Friday, July 14, 2017. Erich Pearson's expansive ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A mission to remove potential explosives from a remote area of Carlsbad Caverns National Park revealed the cave system’s legacy of ...

To help determine forest restoration goals in Costa Rica, postdoctoral scholar Rachel Reid will travel to Central America this winter to explore a cave long inhabited by bats. The work is supported by ...

In an experiment to understand better how ancient artifacts are altered by the sediment in which they are buried for thousands of years, Australian archaeological scientists buried bones, stones, ...

Bat guano — a.k.a., droppings — preserves evidence of past fires, a recent analysis suggests, providing an “unconventional” record that could help scientists learn more about fire history. The study, ...

A species of blind, cave-dwelling salamander in Oklahoma feeds on bat guano according to research published in Proceedings of the Royal Society and presented on the online version of Nature. A ...

reporting from PORTLAND, Ore. — It was a dark and stormy night that brought the bats to Rose Villa. No, really. The squall hit before Memorial Day weekend in 2013, battering the vast array of heirloom ...

Wildlife like chimpanzees have started consuming bat excrement — guano — in the Budongo Forest, Uganda. After analyzing samples, scientists found that the guano not only held high concentrations of ...

Rats with wings. That's what some people call bats. They are notoriously creepy, flying around at night, swooping through the air with their sneaky sonar guiding them. Then there is the whole vampire ...

A 2-meter guano pile holds information about changes in climate and how the bats' food sources shifted over the millennia, analogous to records of the past found in layers of lake mud and Antarctic ...