A fiery orange bat, its wings folded and tiny teeth forever bared on its fuzzy face, is mounted inside a 6-inch, black coffin. Its retail price: $59. Or, for $140, you can get one framed with its ...

A rare species of bat, known as the Painted Bat, has been found in Mahabaleshwar. This rare bat was discovered in the house of Sarfaraz Sheikh, a resident of Mahabaleshwar city, and was later handed ...

In the first comprehensive study ever put together on the illegal dead bat ornament trade, researchers publishing in the European Journal of Wildlife Research learned that one species in particular — ...

A full-court press by researchers is playing major dividends in stopping the online ornamental trade of the painted wooly bat. "It's galvanizing," Joanna Coleman, conservation biologist from the ...

WASHINGTON— Trade in painted woolly bats, largely driven by demand in the United States, is likely unsustainable and illegal, according to a first-of-its-kind study published in the European Journal ...