Bats have inspired many pop culture references, most famously vampires. But did you know there is a species of bat that looks ...

Moreover, bats can live a really long time, with the oldest-known bat living to the ripe old age of 41. But if there’s one ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Rohit Chakravarty, a bat researcher and conservationist with the nonprofit Nature Conservation Foundation, told Mongabay he first caught ...

Flagstaff, Arizona — Scientists have long suspected that Mexican long-nosed bats migrate through southeastern Arizona, but without capturing and measuring the night-flying creatures, proof has been ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

According to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, there are 13 species of bats in Ohio, and four are listed as an ...

Epidemic-causing viruses are linked to a small number of bat families, not bats as a whole, improving outbreak prevention ...

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 ...

Meghalaya has marked a significant biodiversity breakthrough with the first-ever Indian record of Titania’s woolly bat (Kerivoula titania).

Every evening, millions of bats swarm out of a single cave in Texas, making it one of the most stunning natural phenomena to ...

A study of bat viromes in China’s Yunnan, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, and Cambodia identifies 137 viral strains (40 ...