Two Oregon bats will participate in this year's Bat Beauty Contest in hopes of winning the top prize for the Beaver State for the third year in a row. The Bureau of Land Management is hosting its ...

The number of bats in Pennsylvania has dramatically dropped over the years, but work is being done in mines and railroad tunnels to help these important flying mammals recover. With Halloween ...

In a rare technique among mammals, the bats burn proteins from blood, rather than carbs or fat, to power their pursuits of prey, according to a new study Alexa Robles-Gil Daily Correspondent ...

Luckily, they’re only imaginary … or are they? There are real vampires in the world of bats. Out of over 1,400 currently described bat species, three are known to feed on blood exclusively.

“It was a perfect storm of just really unfortunate things that happened that led us to leaving the house,” Rachelle Swan said of the bat infestation that forced her and her family out of their hom ...

Bats are currently in the midst of their own beauty competition, and you can vote for the most gorgeous of them all. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has hosted the Bat Beauty Contest for the ...

Vampire bats made to run on treadmills in a lab reveal secrets of the special metabolism fueling them from blood consumed only minutes before. This is peculiar since in most animals, including ...

Say what? One species of bat shows a remarkable resistance to age-related hearing loss, offering scientists a tantalizing chance to look for clues to how some animals preserve hearing function ...

Because bats are small, secretive, feed at night, and are unfamiliar to most people, they are sometimes regarded as rare. On the contrary, they are found throughout the world except for certain ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Move over, Fat Bear Week. A bat beauty contest is now stepping up to the plate. The Bureau of Land Management has hosted the online competition since 2019 to raise ...

Cold bats thawed and tired relievers pieced together enough outs to rev up the Mets charter for a flight back to Southern California following a 12-6 victory over the Dodgers in Game 5 of the NLCS ...