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 ...

West Virginia is home to fourteen species of bats, from the common big brown bat to the very rare Rafinesque’s big-eared bat.

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...