Researchers recently investigated hammer-headed bat populations in southern Cameroon. The mixed-methods investigation was conducted in mature rainforest, where these massive, bizarre-looking bats ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Spectral bats can be found in Mexico, Central America, and South America. “Spectral bats exhibit a level of cooperative behavior ...

The image of the bat with blood and feathers around its mouth perfectly illustrates the story now published in Science by an international research team. Carlos Ibáñez at the Doñana Biological Station ...

Hidden in plain sight just outside of San Antonio is Bracken Cave Preserve, home to the largest bat colony on Earth. More than 15 million Mexican free-tailed bats pack into this limestone cave every ...

So many Mexican free-tail bats fly out of the Bracken Bat Cave on a summer evening that their spiral path creates a vortex of rising air that helps lift the bats, drawing out even more. In a few hours ...

To exploit a rich food resource that remains largely inaccessible to most predators, Europe’s largest bat captures, kills, and consumes nocturnally migrating birds in flight high above the ground, ...

Most library-goers don’t get to enjoy a bit of nature while pursuing books; not so for Portugal’s Joanine Library. A colony of bats has called the library home since the 18th century. The fascinating ...

Hundreds of thousands of straw-coloured fruit bats (Eidolon helvum) gather at Kasanka National Park, Zambia, creating one of ...