Por: Associated Press Oddities December 28, 2022
HOUSTON (AP) — Hundreds of bats lost their grip and plunged to the pavement underneath a bridge in Houston after going into hypothermic shock during according to wildlife rescuers who saved them by administering fluids and keeping them warm in incubators.The Mexican free-tailed bats that roost at Houston’s Waugh Bridge went into shock when temperatures plunged below freezing last week, the Houston Humane Society . The society’s Texas... + full article
Los Angeles Times USA Nation January 02, 2023
The morning hours of New Year's Day brought gray skies and choppy waves to La Jolla Shores, along with a few dozen people who braved the wind and rain to take the annual Polar Bear Plunge. Some shivered in the cold — well, cold for San Diego — as they shed layers of... + más
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Newsweek USA Nation December 29, 2022
Frigid temperatures hit some animals harder than others during the wicked winter storm that blew through America last weekend. In Florida, iguanas fell from trees. In Texas, bats fell from bridges. Both of these species get so cold they can't grasp onto things, subsequently... + más
Bats plunge to ground in cold, saved by incubators and fluids | Los Angeles Times
Mesmerizing footage shows stream of bats emerge from huge cave | Newsweek
The Boston Globe USA Nation December 29, 2022
A new coronavirus variant dubbed XBB has swiftly spreading in the Northeast, jumping from about 35 percent of cases during the week ending Dec. 17 to just over half of cases last week, according to .Here’s a quick primer on what we know about the variant.It is more... + más
Highly Immune Evasive Omicron XBB.1.5 Variant Is Quickly Becoming Dominant in U.S. as It Doubles Weekly | NBC 6 South Florida
Highly immune evasive omicron XBB.1.5 variant is quickly becoming dominant in U.S. as it doubles weekly | CNBC
Los Angeles Times USA World December 29, 2022
Nearly 1,600 bats found a temporary home this week in the attic of a Houston Humane Society director, but it wasn’t because they made it their roost. It was a temporary recovery space for the flying mammals after they lost their grip and plunged to the pavement after going... + más
Bats plunge to ground in cold; saved by incubators, fluids | Associated Press
Newsweek USA Nation December 24, 2022
At least 130 bats have been rescued in Houston, Texas, after falling from a bridge when they became frozen due to the current inclement weather, according to local reports.Much of the United States is in the grip of a winter storm, which has seen freezing air blown across the... + más
Video shows frozen bats rescued from Arctic blast released back into wild | Newsweek
Los Angeles Times USA World November 30, 2022
The Biden administration declared the northern long-eared bat endangered on Tuesday in a last-ditch effort to save a species driven to the brink of extinction by white-nose syndrome, a fungal disease. “White-nose syndrome is decimating cave-dwelling bat species like the... + más
Northern long-eared bat now listed as endangered after being devastated by fungal disease | Orlando Sentinel
US bat species devastated by fungus, now listed as endangered | WPTV
Newsweek USA Tech October 28, 2022
A huge swarm of bats flying out of a massive Mexican cave in unison has gone viral on Reddit.The video, posted to Reddit by user u/Erne385291 and originally put online by Twitter user @BeAcevedoTachna, shows what appears to be thousands of bats streaming out of the Cueva de Los... + más
4 Years After Thrilling Cave Rescue, Sleepy Park Readies for Onslaught | The New York Times
Ozarks drought reveals parts of Civil War caves lost for thousands of years | Newsweek
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