This northern ghost bat (Diclidurus albus) was a special, rare find for the bat scientists gathered in Belize. “It was magical,” says evolutionary biologist Jasmin Camacho. It's late in the day on a ...

Arizona is home to 28 different species of bats. Bats are an important part of the ecosystem. They pollinate plants and eat mosquitoes. It is illegal to kill or harm bats in Arizona, but they can be ...

Biologists and engineers have joined forces to build a new robot bat that’s helping us understand how real bats use ...

(Luis Echeverría for NPR) It's late in the day on a muggy spring afternoon in northern Belize. A couple dozen researchers enter the Lamanai Archaeological Reserve on foot. Their objective is to catch ...