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

The Pahon Cave in Gabon offers archaeologists a well-preserved look into the Late Stone Age time period in central Africa, ...

Bats keep the mosquito population down. But they also are an important sentinel species as their health and population trends ...

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Bats get a bad reputation for being creepy or disease-ridden, but they’re actually doing loads of important work that keeps [ ...

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

Dispelling myths, bats are vital to our planet, controlling insects and pollinating plants. From the striking Egyptian fruit bat to the adorable Honduran white bat, over 1,400 species showcase ...

Six new bat species were recently discovered in the Philippines by a team of researchers from Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), the Field Museum in Chicago, and Lawrence University in Wisconsin.

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 ...

There are over 1,400 bat species in the world, and they are almost exclusively nocturnal. Bats have traditionally been classified as Microchiroptera, or microbats, and Megachiroptera, or megabats.