On night walks through Highgate Wood, Cindy Blaney shares the whirling wonder of the often-maligned mammals with the humans ...

Derogatory expressions like “dingbat,” “going batty” and “blind as a bat” seem ingrained in the American lexicon. For starters, bats are not blind, but many bat myths abound. Bats are valuable ...

Corey Tarwater (third, from left), an associate professor in the University of Wyoming Department of Zoology and Physiology, shows members of the bat research team from the Smithsonian Tropical ...

Bats often get a bad rap, evoking images of vampires and other horrors that go bump in the night. But scientists who spent three nights working in the North Carolina swamps are scared to think what ...

Research teams studying bats and birds gather in Panama’s Soberanía National Park to celebrate the launch of a long-term census of bats designed to complement the bird census, which will celebrate its ...

One large species of bat preys on songbirds as they migrate through the dark of night over the Mediterranean, say Spanish and Swiss researchers. And the findings have astounded at least one bat expert ...