Record-breaking temperatures and successive heatwaves have killed thousands of flying foxes across South Australia as the mammals struggle to cope with hot conditions. Rescue groups estimate more than ...

The gray-headed flying fox is one of the world’s largest bats. It can weigh more than 2 pounds and have a wingspan of more than 5 feet. And as it migrates along Australia’s eastern coastal regions, ...

A Variable Flying Fox and her pup were saved during a life-threatening delivery complication at the Lubee Bat Conservancy.

Bats vanish the moment the sun rises, slipping into a hidden world most people never think to question. Their daytime lives ...

Flying foxes are a type of bat within the Chiroptera order of mammals. There are several different species and, unfortunately, two native Australian species have suffered sudden and dramatic losses ...

A platypus playing in the river, tree kangaroos hiding above and bats screeching overhead… this isn’t the Duke gardens! 10,185 miles away, three Duke students find themselves in Yungaburra, Australia.

In Far North Queensland, one special winged mammal helps keep rainforests alive. The spectacled flying fox travels vast distances each night, pollinating flowers and spreading seeds far and wide. But ...