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 ...

DESCRIPTION: This is a medium-sized bat; adult weight is approximately .25 ounces and total body length is approximately 3.5 inches. As its name suggests, this bat is distinguishable from other Myotis ...

The longest-lived bats—those belonging to the Myotis genus—may have their telomeres to thank for their slow aging process, according to a study published yesterday (Feb 7) in Science Advances. “In the ...

For more than two decades, researchers knew of just a single, male individual of the greater mouse-eared bat that would repeatedly hibernate in an unused railway tunnel in Sussex, U.K. This male ...

DESCRIPTION: Adults weigh between three and five grams, and total body length is about three inches. Wingspan is between eight and 10 inches. Even for a bat, the species has very small feet, around ...