On a chilly day in November, a year-old Big free-tailed bat was minding his own business, doing general bat-like things — flying, swooping, likely hanging out with his family — out in West Texas near ...

It can't feel like Halloween without a new bat species flying around Nebraska. James Comey strikes back He was singing to an empty restaurant. Then strangers joined in and it went viral Officials in ...

A new study from Tel Aviv University reveals that the greater mouse-tailed bat (Rhinopoma microphyllum) uses its long tail as a natural tactile sensor to navigate backward in dark caves. The ...

So many Mexican free-tail bats fly out of the Bracken Bat Cave on a summer evening that their spiral path creates a vortex of rising air that helps lift the bats, drawing out even more. In a few hours ...

For the very first time, a fungus that causes white-nose syndrome, a disease that’s decimated bat communities in other parts of the United States, has been detected in Texas. According to the Dallas ...

Into the evening twilight they flew, ready to eat half their weight in insects. Each of these Brazilian free-tail bats was roughly the size of small mouse, but there were about 13,000 of them ...