Bats have inspired many pop culture references, most famously vampires. But did you know there is a species of bat that looks ...

Laura Torrent did not know that the tiny brown bat she caught in early 2024 would become a global milestone for biodiversity and conservation.She had suspected the small creature, caught during an ...

Massachusetts biologist Elise Stanmyer scrambled into the dark of an abandoned World War II military building. She whispered so she wouldn’t wake its winged residents. Her headlamp illuminated one ...

Epidemic-causing viruses are linked to a small number of bat families, not bats as a whole, improving outbreak prevention ...

Every evening, millions of bats swarm out of a single cave in Texas, making it one of the most stunning natural phenomena to ...

Moreover, bats can live a really long time, with the oldest-known bat living to the ripe old age of 41. But if there’s one ...