Most people spot a bat swooping through the evening sky and instinctively step back inside. The reputation bats carry – ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A recent study has found that bats near a solar power plant in the UK are confusing the smooth surface of the panels with ...

Source: Sherri and Brock Fenton, used with permission. Darkness is a diminishing natural resource. Over the last hundred years, human development and urbanization have changed the nocturnal landscape, ...