Bat season is here, so don’t be shocked if the winged mammals appear in attics or if little ones learning to fly crash into picnic tables, low bushes, driveways or meet with other misfortune. “This ...

When I tell people my favorite animals are bats, they are often surprised. And it’s true, bats aren’t as immediately winning as say, dolphins or Golden Retrievers. They can be considered pest in your ...

Most bats use echolocation to navigate and hunt, but some use their ears for another trick: eavesdropping. Hunt like a bat! How baby bats learn to eavesdrop on their next meal There are over 1400 ...

BROOKINGS, S.D. -- Scott Pedersen was a big fan of bats, long before the current blockbuster movie hit the screens, or the last one and the one before that. A professor in the South Dakota State ...

This Artibeus fruit bat feasts on sugary fruit every night but these winged mammals don’t suffer from diabetes or other metabolic problems as humans might if we were to gorge on sugar. Some bats like ...

OSTEEN — When bats glide out at dusk, especially around Halloween, the sight can feel spooky enough to quicken one's steps, urging you inside and out of reach of the shadowy, darting creatures. But ...

Mark Stratton: This is Scientific American’s 60-Second Science. I’m Mark Stratton. It was lights out, and the babies were up—again. Ahana Fernandez of the Natural History Museum, Berlin, pointed her ...

Cincinnati Zoo's baby bat-eared fox is continuing to grow, now getting in some training sessions.The zoo said Kalahari, who was born in April, will eventually become an ambassador animal, and visitors ...

There are three species of bats that eat birds. We know that because we have found feathers and other avian remains in their feces. What we didn’t know was how exactly they hunt birds, which are quite ...

Three adorable baby bat-eared foxes have emerged from their den to frolic and play at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in California, a video shows. “The kits are spending more time outside of the den ...