Finding that vampire bats along Peru’s coast carried H5N1 antibodies raises concerns that multiple bat species could become ...

The stereotypical image of blood-sucking creatures is gone. In reality, bats are docile and help our ecosystems run smoothly.

The video explores whether bats possess traits that place them among the most overpowered animals in nature. It examines how their flight, echolocation, and endurance allow them to exploit nighttime ...

How bats, agave plants, and tequila are connected. Plus, tiny trackers on monarch butterflies reveal their migration journeys.

A new study reveals that vampire bats mimic each other's calls if they are close friends, suggesting they have deeper social ...

If you have bats in your attic, this is your last weekend to get them removed for awhile, according to a state law. A law in North Carolina prevents residents from removing bats during their mating ...

Bats beware. The ability to fly won’t save you from hungry, determined rats. In a first, brown rats were filmed hunting bats by catching them midair. The finding, published in the November Global ...

Vampire bats are the only mammals that feed solely on blood. Price Sewell via Rossi and Welch, Biology Letters, 2024 While much of the world sleeps, vampire bats from Mexico, Central and South America ...

Well, not the kind of candy you buy in a sweets shop. Rather, they like fruit, which is rich in sugar. “We call it nature’s candy,” says Wei Gordon, a biologist at Menlo College. She was catching ...

Flying, fluffy, strangely beguiling, but also much maligned. While the coronavirus pandemic sweeping the world is thought to have originated in bats, the view of bats solely as carriers of disease ...

For Bat Week this year, we rounded up five reasons to love and conserve these misunderstood mammals. Erin Malsbury From leaf-engineering to complex social circles, there’s more to bats than flying and ...

In September 2024, a bat captured in the Mountain View Hall dorm tested positive for rabies. Despite mitigation efforts, Northern Arizona University says they're still dealing with their bat problem ...