In a rainforest of central Belize, a wildlife ranger saw an oddly colored animal fall out of a tree. The fleeting glimpse ...

Spix’s disc-winged bats shrieked when they were first shown mealworms, a new food for them. Were they alarmed, or were they ...

In the toxic male technique, genetically engineered male insects would implant semen containing toxic venom into the female insects during mating ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Insects do a lot more harm than ruining picnics. Some insects spread devastating diseases, while others cause staggering economic losses in agriculture. To control some of these ...

Bats are the only mammals capable of true flight, with over 1,300 species worldwide. From fruit bats to vampire bats, these ...

Bats’ status as the only truly flying mammals might mean they also have another ‘superpower’ — invincibility to most viruses ...