The stereotypical image of blood-sucking creatures is gone. In reality, bats are docile and help our ecosystems run smoothly.

The video explores whether bats possess traits that place them among the most overpowered animals in nature. It examines how ...

New research suggests bats maintain awareness of their past, present, and future positions to find their way around. More than a thousand species use echolocation, but after millions of years of ...

Bats have been found to evolve into bigger sizes in exactly the same way in separate locations, in a very rare example of parallel evolution. The findings come from a study of several bats—some very ...

While the Philadelphia region isn’t home to the blood-sucking bats of Hollywood lore, bats have bitten or scratched nearly 500 people in Philadelphia in the last five years. Stephanie Stronsick knows ...

Well, not the kind of candy you buy in a sweets shop. Rather, they like fruit, which is rich in sugar. “We call it nature’s candy,” says Wei Gordon, a biologist at Menlo College. She was catching ...

Janet Debelak Tyburec, of Bat Survey Solutions, measures the ears of an evening bat on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025 at Swift River Pecans in Lockhart, Texas. These bats eat lots of different insects in ...

For Bat Week this year, we rounded up five reasons to love and conserve these misunderstood mammals. Erin Malsbury From leaf-engineering to complex social circles, there’s more to bats than flying and ...

Flying, fluffy, strangely beguiling, but also much maligned. While the coronavirus pandemic sweeping the world is thought to have originated in bats, the view of bats solely as carriers of disease ...

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