For more than 400 years, an oil painting titled Air by Flemish master Jan Brueghel the Elder has been hiding a scientific ...

As the only mammals that have evolved the ability to fly, bats need a lot of calories to get off the ground. That means they have to eat well over their body weight each day, which adds up to a lot of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Vampire bats infected with the rabies virus aren't likely to act stereotypically "rabid," according to a new study—instead, infected male bats tended to withdraw socially, scaling back on the common ...

What makes one bat take risks and venture far from its roost in search of food, while another stays close to familiar, safer areas? A new study from Tel Aviv University’s School of Zoology reveals ...

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 ...

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 ...