With dark, velvety bracts that resemble bat wings and whisker-like filaments, the black bat flower is an exotic plant that [… ...

If you like a gardening challenge and want to expand your plant collection with a truly unique species, look no further than ...

Even botanists can be surprised at the sheer variety of a houseplant often known only for being indestructible.

Every spring, Mexican long-nosed bats traverse a lengthy migratory path north from Mexico into the southwestern U.S., ...

The bat’s long tongue springs a hidden switch, exploding the pea-pod keel. As it laps deep in the flower’s nectary, spring-loaded anthers burst from the keel and gild the bat’s tiny rump ...

Two New Yorkers died after using bat excrement to grow marijuana. The men, 64 and 59, paid the ultimate price for getting ...

Scientists have demonstrated that Wrinkle-lipped free-tailed bats not only travels great distances, but also hunt at impressive altitudes of up to 1,600 meters above ground -- the altitude at which ...

A press release from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR): At the beginning of the major league baseball season, the DNR teamed up with the Minnesota Twins to launch “Break a Bat, ...

Are you amazed at the number of bats major league baseball players break these days? Well, the bat manufacturers aren’t the only ones smiling when it happens. At the beginning of the major ...

Dubbed the "Bat Man of Mexico," Medellín convinced agave farmers to set aside part of their land to allow the plants there to flower and be pollinated. He also worked with a nonprofit to ...

Bat Conservation International ... These bats are important pollinators for desert plants, as their diet consists primarily of nectar from agave blooms and flowering cactuses, like the saguaros.