All of New York’s bat species are insectivores, chowing down on pests that ravage crops. The nocturnal predators also limit ...

Russ Benedict from Central College holds a big brown bat during a bat population survey at Big Hollow Recreation Area in ...

A recent study identifies a consistent glow across six species of North American bats, but the underlying reason for the ...

GBH News tagged along with scientists to a top-secret location where they’re trying to protect these misunderstood mammals.

By Mongabay.com Researchers have recently described six new-to-science species of tube-nosed bats from the Philippines, named ...

Researchers recently investigated hammer-headed bat populations in southern Cameroon. The mixed-methods investigation was conducted in mature rainforest, where these massive, bizarre-looking bats ...

Flying mammals of the night have been under threat of white-nose syndrome in the U.S. for years. Oklahoma researchers are ...

While the neon glow may surprise us, the reality for the animals experiencing it might be very different. Bats don’t have a black light to shine on one another under the dark of night, and the moon ...

To find out, Elena Tena, a biologist at Doñana Biological Station in Seville, Spain, and her colleagues attached ultra-light ...

Bat Week across Connecticut is in full swing ahead of Halloween. According to Connecticut’s Department of Energy and ...