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 ...

The northern long-eared bat — distinguishable from its close relatives ... Because of this species' strong association with large blocks of older forests, forest fragmentation, logging and forest ...

With leathery wings and all, the bat weighs as much as three pennies. Yet the tiny mammal, and its only slightly less tiny cousin, the northern long-eared bat, are playing outsized roles in plans ...