When bats aren't flying, they often dangle from cave ceilings or the undersides of bridges. But why do bats sleep upside down? This topsy-turvy behavior may result from the evolutionary journey bats ...

If you were making a bowling pin on a lathe and suddenly decided to make a baseball bat instead, the result would look something like the "torpedo bat" that is the talk of MLB's new season. After some ...

Bats are one of Halloween’s most famous symbols, but their real job is an important part of ecosystems and agriculture. One William & Mary professor hopes the public can learn to appreciate the flying ...

In 2006, people found bats in New York's Howe Cave that had a peculiar, fuzzy white substance growing on their snouts. This was the first sighting of white-nose syndrome, a fungal disease that has ...

Bats are considered a natural pesticide, widely relied on by farmers as an alternative to chemical pesticides to protect their crops from insects. But since 2006, many bat populations have collapsed ...

For the nearly three-year-old female bat soaring into the Spanish skies in March 2023, it was just another night of striving to feed herself. But her overnight exploits were about to become the stuff ...

A deadly fungal disease impacting bat populations has now been detected west of the Continental Divide in Colorado for the first time, raising concerns among wildlife officials. While Colorado has ...