Fruit bats earned their name for a pretty obvious reason: their affinity for fruit. Also known as flying foxes, these ...

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Reaching a 6-foot wingspan is the definitive physical requirement for the giant golden-crowned flying fox. Bats have inspired many pop culture references, most famously vampires. But did you know ...

Flying foxes are a type of bat within the Chiroptera order of mammals. There are several different species and, unfortunately, two native Australian species have suffered sudden and dramatic losses ...

Feb. 3 (UPI) --Animal rescuers in Australia responded to a hotel where a bat apparently attempted to take a drink from the swimming pool and became trapped in the water. Kate CJ Murphy, president of ...