As twilight settles, the world’s most misunderstood mammals take to the skies. Bats, with their leathery wings and mysterious ways, have long fascinated—and, let’s be honest, sometimes ...

Carnivorous bats, known collectively as false vampire bats because they don’t drink the blood of animals, as true vampire bats do, are found throughout the tropics, although in low numbers ...

Malayan flying foxes are primarily nocturnal, which explains why this bat hides from the sun. The bat in the video uses its ...

Vampire bats are the only mammals to feed entirely on blood and have tiny infra-red receptors in their nose leaf which can detect the most blood-rich veins on an animal, from up to 20 cms away.

Huabin Zhao from China’s Wuhan University and his colleagues discovered the bats’ weakened bitter taste when they found a much greater number of the vampire bat bitter taste receptor genes were ...

Some animals rarely if ever interact with one ... altruism is a powerful demonstration of natural selection at work. Vampire bats (Figure 3) returning from an unsuccessful foraging bout will ...

Bats are an iconic symbol of Halloween and vampire bats in particular have earned themselves ... capable of powered flight and there are over 1,100 species of these winged animals. It's no surprise ...