“Something that we thought was extinct was in this beautiful place that nobody goes to,” Iroro Tanshi said of the find ...

Discovering a host of bats in your home can be a frightening experience. Here's how to safely get rid of them.

Bats possess a unique, preactivated innate immune defense that stops viruses from fully replicating, even after cell entry.

Laura Torrent did not know that the tiny brown bat she caught in early 2024 would become a global milestone for biodiversity and conservation.She had suspected the small creature, caught during an ...

The short-tailed roundleaf bat was feared extinct until scientist Iroro Tanshi found one in Afi sanctuary in Nigeria, and set out to protect the only confirmed roosting colony ...

When the North American Bat Conservation Alliance (NABCA) released its first ever State of Bats report this spring, it was intended as a baseline record of how bat species in North America were faring ...

Bats are one of a few animals associated with Halloween. But Connecticut environmentalists want residents to know these flying predators are nothing to fear! It is the possibility of losing them that ...

Most people spot a bat swooping through the evening sky and instinctively step back inside. The reputation bats carry – ...

A fungus that causes white nose syndrome in bats has swept across the United States killing millions of bats a year. Some little brown bats have survived hibernation and began creeping out of their ...

In spring and early summer, bats are migrating to their summer habitats and are more active when they get there, so they’re ...

Roosting is one of the “least understood parts of the bat’s life cycle.” Researchers in Michigan are trying to change that ...