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

Unlike night-vision goggles, which can only see infrared light in green, people wearing the contacts can see infrared light ...

Bats are incredibly diverse, both morphologically and taxonomically. Bats are the only mammalian group to have achieved powered flight, an adaptation that is hypothesized to have allowed them to ...

Animals use many different kinds of adaptations to protect themselves. These animals, for example, have fangs!

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 ...