In the long memory of man, the fly-by-night, leather-winged bat has seldom been anything but a creature of ill repute—a companion of witches and devils and a portent of disaster. Though naturalists ...

Bats have long occupied a paradoxical position in the public imagination: feared as carriers of some of the world’s most ...

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In the largest study of its kind to date, researchers compiled data from 103 bat genomes and 44 fossils to rewrite the bat ...

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By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Sept 24 (Reuters) - Bats are critical players in global ecosystems, pollinating plants, dispersing ...

For the first time, scientists have tracked the real-time brain activity of mammals freely navigating in their natural environment. Ina study published in the journal Science, researchers from the ...

Sounding like a toxic moth might keep some beetles safe from hungry bats. When certain tiger beetles hear an echolocating bat draw near, they respond with extremely high-pitched clicks. This acoustic ...

(This article forms a part of the Science for All newsletter that takes the jargon out of science and puts the fun in! Subscribe now!) The world’s only winged mammals, nocturnal bats, of which there ...

Bats play a critical role in maintaining healthy ecosystems in Illinois. These creatures are estimated to consume over 1,200 insects in a single night, making them vital for controlling insect ...

Julius Nziza still remembers the moment vividly. Just before dawn on a chilly January morning in 2019, he and his team gently extracted a tiny brown bat from a net purposely strung to catch the ...

The largest analysis of bat genomes and fossils suggests that the first bats emerged in Europe roughly 65 million years ago and that echolocation evolved early.