With a large net and a stroke of luck, scientists have discovered a new species of bat that has bright orange fur and black wings. The researchers describe the species, which they name Myotis ...

Many people would not describe bats as cute. This is likely because of bats’ associations with viruses, darkness, and evil. Granted, bats are somewhat weird animals, being the only mammals that can ...

Ten years ago, Iroro Tanshi found something incredible in a cave in Nigeria: a colony of short-tailed roundleaf bats, a ...

Oregon is home to 15 bat species. As we approach warmer weather, bats hibernating in caves are beginning to wake up and those that migrated away are making their way back. While bats can prey on fruit ...

Bats are sweet, whimsical, diverse, and essential as eaters of insects, many, many insects. A Clark University bat walk ...

Four of the nine species of Adirondack bats belong to the genus Myotis, the mouse-eared bats. The little brown bat is the most abundant of the four, and is the common bat of the region. During the ...

Babies babble for a good while before they are capable of forming and enunciating full words. Bats do too, even though their ...

After a wildfire scorched the forest home of a rare bat species, ecologist Iroro Tanshi committed to stopping similar blazes ...