A roost of common vampire bats, Desmodus rotundus. Credit: Uwe Schmidt/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 4.0 Vampire bats have complex social networks, forming relationships with other bats that can vary on ...

Real-life "batmen" discover that when it comes to competing for food at dinnertime, it's a bat-blast-bat world out there. Freelancer Michael Franco writes about the serious and silly sides of science ...

BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) - There are over 30 species of bats in Texas, more than any other U.S. state, and while bats are an important part of the ecosystem, they are also known to carry deadly diseases ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bats tend to have a bad rep with people (well, maybe outside the goth community, anyway). These creatures of the night are ...

Baby birds learn to fly. Baby mammals switch from milk to solid food. Baby bats, as winged mammals, do both at the same time during their transition from infants to flying juveniles. According to a ...

As darkness falls, a greater Japanese horseshoe bat gets ready to head out for the night’s hunt. As it takes flight, it uses ...

The same neurons that help bats navigate through space may also help them navigate collective social environments, finds a new study published today in the journal Nature. Many mammals—including bats ...

MADISON - As darkness fell over the state capital Oct. 25, Makeela Magomolla, Tayah Dean and George Whitney led a group of more than 40 people on the winding paths of UW-Madison's Lakeshore Nature ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bats have been acting erratically in a Utah national park, and a visitor was even bitten, wildlife officials said. Then park ...

Some of the deadliest viral diseases that infect people are carried by bats, like Nipah virus (which has mortality rate of 40 to 70 percent in infected people), Ebola virus, and Marburg virus (which ...

Israeli researchers have discovered that fruit bats seasonally change how they compete with other animals, namely rats, for food. Under the leadership of Prof. Yossi Yovel of Tel Aviv University’s ...

Whether or not the deadly white-nose syndrome fungal disease hits some bats harder than others could depend on behavior and size, researchers report in the Jan. 29 Science Advances. The disease ...