Bats are able to consume an extraordinary amount of sugar with no ill effects. Scientists are trying to learn more about how bats do it — and... Some bats eat a ton of sugar and have no health woes.

The grisly infrared camera footage records a never-before-seen hunting tactic. It may have implications for bat conservation.

Some fruit bats eat up to twice their body weight in sugary mangoes, bananas, or figs every day to not only survive, but thrive. Unlike humans, these flying mammals can have an essentially permanent ...

After nearly 25 years of research, the mystery has finally been solved: Europe's largest bat doesn't just eat small birds—it hunts and captures them more than a kilometer above the ground. And it eats ...

Did you know that Texas has more bat species than any other state in the U.S.? Of the 47 bat species in America, we have 32. Texas also has the largest known bat colony in the world at Bracken Cave ...

BROOKINGS, S.D. -- Scott Pedersen was a big fan of bats, long before the current blockbuster movie hit the screens, or the last one and the one before that. A professor in the South Dakota State ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Bats, lauded for scooping up mosquitoes and other nasty pests but reviled for drinking blood and spreading rabies, now have another unpopular habit to live down -- it appears ...

Wildlife officials say the colony is one of the largest known roosts of this bat species in the area, and a sign of how ...

With Halloween upon us, spooky symbols of the holiday abound — including bats. It just so happens to also be International Bat Week, which celebrates the role of bats in nature. Coincidence? Perhaps ...

This Artibeus fruit bat feasts on sugary fruit every night but these winged mammals don’t suffer from diabetes or other metabolic problems as humans might if we were to gorge on sugar. Some bats like ...