Albino animals lack pigment in their fur and ... The leucistic Thyroptera tricolor, or Spix’s disc-winged bat, found in Belize. Photo from Jason Headley via Martin, Kilburn, Charette and Miller ...

Albino animals lack pigment in their fur and ... Later, in April 2024, rangers documented another sighting of a male Spix’s disc-winged bat with leucism. Researchers suspect all three sightings ...

An enduring urban legend has it that blind, albino alligators patrol New York ... The second-most-spotted animals were southeastern myotis bats, which were observed nearly 700 times.

Snowball, a 21-year-old albino alligator at the Newport Aquarium, has died. The aquarium announced the rare alligator's passing on social media Tuesday but did not state a cause of death.

Until now, leucism had never been recorded in this species – or the entire Thyropteridae family to which the Spix’s disc-winged bat belongs, for that matter. Typically, these bats are dark ...

Olney, Illinois, has taken steps to protect an iconic mammal from domesticated felines, setting a possible model for other places to follow Michelle Mastro An albino squirrel peeks out from within ...

HKU5-CoV-2 is a coronavirus belonging comes from the merbecovirus subgenus A new bat coronavirus, similar to the one that caused the COVID-19 pandemic, has been discovered in China. A Chinese team ...

While the video above describes the crayfish as “albino”, a few comments suggest that it is actually “leucistic”. Albino animals usually have red or pinkish eyes, whereas the crayfish in ...