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

Bats flying around your home at night may signal a healthy ecosystem. These nocturnal mammals help control insects, pollinate ...

Bats are some of the most highly specialized mammals to have ever evolved. This includes not only the evolution of active flight, but also their echolocation. This ability requires the bats to produce ...

Bats are flying mammals that are biologically fascinating, contribute healthy ecosystems, and help scientists.

A team of National Geographic Explorers is studying how these bats developed their architectural expertise—while cataloguing ...

SCHOOL groups and tourists are visiting a bat-filled cave riddled with Marburg virus, previously flagged as having pandemic potential. “Python Cave”, in western Uganda, is home to tens of ...

Limestone karst is like an island. Each rocky formation rises distinctly out of the surrounding landscape. Over time, an array of highly specialized species, each adapted to that particular landform’s ...

Atrium Health Lincoln moved patients and sealed off a portion of its facility last week after discovering bats in a confined area.

When a resident of Wellington, Colorado, reported a stranded bat in their backyard, they did not realize just how unusual it ...

British defence chiefs were forced to install a “bat disco” lighting system at the country’s biggest military training ground ...

Dear EarthTalk: How are bat species doing these days? -- G.V., Butte, Montana If you enjoy money, tequila and saving the ...

High-frequency ultrasound significantly reduces the size of the face and modifies the internal bones of the ear in bats.