It's late in the day on a muggy spring afternoon in northern Belize. A couple dozen researchers enter the Lamanai Archaeological Reserve on foot. Their objective is to catch as many different kinds of ...

Families are invited to celebrate Bat Appreciation Day at the Old New-Gate Prison and Copper Mine on Sunday, Sept. 15. Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection‘s Wildlife Division ...

The Windup Newsletter ⚾ | This is The Athletic’s MLB newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Windup directly in your inbox. The first big controversy of the year: the Yankees’ new bats. Plus: Let’s ...

In Linfa Wang’s ideal world, all humans would be just a bit more bat-like. Wang, a biochemist and zoonotic-disease expert at Duke-NUS Medical School, in Singapore, has no illusions about people ...

They fly like no other creature on Earth, survive for decades, and rarely get cancers. Learning their secrets could lead to new advances for human use. How do bats fly? Scientists at Brown University ...

Join Tanja and Anni to discuss everything about bats with experts Shannon Carnevale and Tom West. Shannon Carnevale is an Extension Agent in Polk County, FL, where she leads the Natural Resources and ...

Well, not the kind of candy you buy in a sweets shop. Rather, they like fruit, which is rich in sugar. “We call it nature’s candy,” says Wei Gordon, a biologist at Menlo College. She was catching ...

The number of bats in Pennsylvania has dramatically dropped over the years, but work is being done in mines and railroad tunnels to help these important flying mammals recover. With Halloween around ...

For many people, living or being around bats – those night-dwelling creatures that lean toward the creepy side – doesn’t seem so appealing. But Tom Ramseth of North Aurora welcomes bats and other ...

Since the recent confirmation from the Toledo-Lucas County Health Department of a rabies-positive bat in Lucas County, wildlife experts have said education and calm are key. For Laura Zitzelberger, Co ...

Of the world’s 1,400 bat species, only eight live in Minnesota. Four of the eight spend the winter hibernating The big brown bat is one of MInnesota's eight known bat species and one of four bats in ...

I don't know what it says about bats that I love the little critters so much. The way they sleep upside down, or fly unpredictably, their smushy, mamalian little noses, or the delicate, fancy wings.