The jobs have taken on greater relevance recently, as residents grapple with diseases transmissible from animals to humans.

Step outside on any spring or summer evening, and you will likely see a tiny bat known as a Western Pipistrelle fly right ...

A woman in Mobile, Alabama, had her peaceful evening turn into absolute chaos when a live bat flew into her house— and got ...

A bat found near Arvada’s Westlake neighborhood has tested positive for rabies, becoming Jefferson County’s first confirmed ...

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 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!

CEDAR PARK, Texas - A bat found at a Cedar Park motel has tested positive for rabies. The Cedar Park Police Department says a ...

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 ...

The long-popular myth that Schreck was actually a real-life vampire (after all, his name means "terror" in German) only added to the power of Murnau’s nightmare fuel. The opulent, shoot-the-works ...

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 ...