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

We are better off with bats. These bat facts will make you rethink the unsung heroes of the night and learn why you should ...

“You may already have a lot of plants that attract the insects that bats need to feed from, things like ox-eye daisies, ...

Bats usually get cast as spooky night dwellers who dart through the dark or hang upside down in attics. But there’s a lot more to them than Halloween stories suggest. Here’s a look at the surprising ...

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 ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — Bats play an important role in the ecosystem, eating their body weight in insects each night — often numbering in the thousands. This benefits farms, gardens and homes by controlling ...

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 ...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — 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 ...

There are three species of bats that eat birds. We know that because we have found feathers and other avian remains in their feces. What we didn’t know was how exactly they hunt birds, which are quite ...

Bats are an important part of the ecosystem, eating pesky insects most humans hate. Sellers market bat homes, man-made roosts, to encourage them to stick around and eat insects. Tennessee is home to ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — The image of Count Dracula transforming into a bat in the blink of an eye, flying off into the darkness to terrorize helpless citizens is an image that hasn't done the actual ...