Assistant Professor Anna Doty and her students study bats across California, revealing how these docile creatures benefit ...

Bats are unique. Even though they share the characteristics of all mammals - hair, regulated body temperature, the ability to bear their young alive and nurse them - bats are the only mammals to truly ...

From the bumblebee bat to the Baluchistan pygmy jerboa, here are eight of the world's smallest mammals who thrive in a world built for giants.

This is the largest of all Adirondack bats. The soft, silky fur is long, longest on the neck where it forms a ruff. In color, the fur is dark mahogany to yellowish brown. The short, rounded ears are ...

Here are eight tiny tyne creatures known as the smallest mammals of the earth. At only 1.3g, the extinct B. vanhouteni is believed to be the smallest mammal that ever lived. This tiny, shrew-like ...

Bats are crucial to ecosystems—devouring insects, dispersing seeds, and pollinating flowers. But in the U.S. an insidious new enemy is causing massive die-offs. David S. Blehert, a ...

The white-throated needletail was long considered the fastest flier, but the bird, or any other avian, is not. The ...

Unfortunately, bats can carry and transmit rabies. They are not alone in this ability; rabies is a viral disease that affects warm-blooded mammals. Wild animals such as ferrets, raccoons, skunks, ...