We all know that bats are masters of the night, with their high-pitched calls and whisper-quiet wings, weaving through ...

The trees around Green Lake and the surrounding neighborhood are home to a critter that may surprise - or terrify - some residents: roosting bats. Michelle Noe, president of Bats Northwest, said city ...

Russ Benedict from Central College holds a big brown bat during a bat population survey at Big Hollow Recreation Area in Sperry, Iowa, on July 12, 2023. The northern long-eared bat is a threatened ...

Brad Westrich is realizing his childhood dream as he works with bats in Indiana. Growing up in New Mexico and visiting nearby Carlsbad Caverns as a child, Westrich always was fascinated by bats and ...

For the first time, scientists documented direct evidence of a bat preying on a bird at high altitude. By Douglas Main During spring and fall migrations, billions of birds take to the night skies. The ...

After decades of mystery, scientists have finally proven that Europe’s largest bat, the greater noctule, hunts and eats small songbirds mid-air—more than a kilometer above ground. Using tiny ...

As a deadly fungal disease sweeps across North America, wiping out millions of bats, scientists are pioneering a bold new strategy to protect these special creatures. As a deadly fungal disease sweeps ...

A large-scale study reveals that only a few bat lineages harbor viruses with high epidemic potential, reshaping our understanding of zoonotic threats and calling for more targeted, clade-specific ...

Bats in the tropics of the Americas are a reservoir for morbilliviruses—a genus of RNA viruses that includes the human measles virus. However, their role in spreading morbilliviruses to other ...

New videos reveal the surprising dynamics of bat-rat relationships—and suggest how human activity is fueling these interspecies conflicts. A rat attacks a bat as it flies by in this still image from a ...