See inside Tolga Bat Hospital, a place for Australia’s injured and orphaned flying foxes.

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 ...

José G. Martínez-Fonseca has spent years documenting the hidden beauty of bats, and his work shows just how misunderstood these animals really are. As a Nicaraguan biologist and postdoctoral ...

Every Halloween, fake bats flutter through horror movies and paper versions hang from the ceiling at parties in an effort to add to the scare factor. But a Virginia woman who helps rescue the real ...

Batman may not have any superpowers, but his inspiration certainly does. More than 1,400 bat species live around the world, except in Antarctica and a few remote islands. What makes these flying ...

From sharks to bats to lions, these researchers are showing their local communities the importance of these often misunderstood species to their ecosytems. Lemon sharks (pictured in the Bahamas) are ...