Last fall, scientists reported the first known recordings of greater noctule bats hunting and feasting on songbirds during ...

Bats vanish the moment the sun rises, slipping into a hidden world most people never think to question. Their daytime lives ...

Bats hold some of the most jaw-dropping records in the entire animal kingdom, from the world's smallest mammal to creatures ...

For more than 400 years, an oil painting titled Air by Flemish master Jan Brueghel the Elder has been hiding a scientific ...

A small bat from the Western Himalayas has now been recognized as a new species, and it comes with two features that are hard to miss once you know where to look. The animal, named Myotis himalaicus ...

The Biden administration declared the northern long-eared bat endangered on Tuesday in a last-ditch effort to save a species driven to the brink of extinction by white-nose syndrome, a fungal disease.

Some bat species are more likely to be found in cities than in the countryside. A scientific team from Freie Universität Berlin, the University of Greifswald, the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater ...

Bats are considered one of the best-adapted mammalian groups in terrestrial and particularly arboreal environments. Bats come in all spaces and sizes, from the penny-sized Kitti's hog-nosed bat to the ...

When the North American Bat Conservation Alliance (NABCA) released its first ever State of Bats report this spring, it was intended as a baseline record of how bat species in North America were faring ...