From their odd appendages to their unsavory hygiene, certain animals suffer an image problem. But their awkward attributes ...

But a few scientists have provided useful data. During the 1991 total eclipse, cave-roosting common vampire bats and Geoffroy's tailless bats showed no behavioral changes at the Grutas de la ...

Bats in the tropics of the Americas are a reservoir for morbilliviruses—a genus of RNA viruses that includes the human ...

Bats typically eat insects, fruit, nectar, and pollen. However, three outlier bat species make meals of larger creatures: the ...

There are few shows as full of humor and chaos as What We Do in the Shadows. Created by Jemaine Clement, this mockumentary ...

Much of the embryological research to date using bats as model organisms has investigated the role of developmental changes in the morphological specialization of homologous structures, i.e., ...

Scientists have found a way to sample DNA out of the air on a large scale — making it possible to one day track the health ...

Vampire bats feed on blood at night. It’s not easy to find a meal, but when they do, it’s a large one. This leaves them with a surplus. On such nights, they regurgitate some of the excess blood and ...

Bats are intuitive physicists, understanding instinctively the way sound moves through space. Not only do they listen keenly to their environments, but they also send out ultrasonic chirps to help ...

SURPRISE, Ariz. — A Surprise man was arrested on suspicion of killing his wife with a baseball bat amidst a "difficult divorce" and trying to hide her body, the city police department said.

Oh! You’ve heard that. They actually don’t. So, usually you see in movies vampire bats that look like this (shows off Kamilah the fruit bat). This is a fruit bat. Vampire bats are only about ...