There have been reports of rabies in bats in Tennessee, but skunks are the most common carrier of the disease in the state, ...

To find out, Elena Tena, a biologist at Doñana Biological Station in Seville, Spain, and her colleagues attached ultra-light ...

Bats love to munch on insects like stink bugs and moths. Some farmers are now relying on the mammals for pest control – and ...

Local bat populations are getting attention in the Phoenix area due to a recent mosquito surge ahead of Halloween.

​One of those misconceptions is what they eat. Thanks to horror mythology, many people may think they feed on blood, but ...

I don’t usually get the typical creepy-crawly feeling when it comes to wildlife, excluding snakes and very large spiders.

Researchers at Tel Aviv University noticed a pattern: bats took fewer risks while scavenging in the winter, but became braver ...

This Artibeus fruit bat feasts on sugary fruit every night but these winged mammals don’t suffer from diabetes or other metabolic problems as humans might if we were to gorge on sugar. Some bats like ...