There is everything from garden paths with manicured surroundings to more wild routes with some elevation changes. There are ...

It’s about the size of a large bumblebee - and it holds the title of world’s smallest mammal. In this video, we take a closer look at the bumblebee bat, where it lives, how it survives, and why this ...

For some reason October is our national Bat Appreciation Month, with Bat Appreciation Week at the end of the month including Halloween. Unfortunately, linking bats to Halloween reinforces the ...

Social media is going batty for a “human-sized” bat. Twitter user @AlexJoestar622 posted a photo that seemingly showed an extremely large, black-winged mammal just hanging out.

As twilight settles, the world’s most misunderstood mammals take to the skies. Bats, with their leathery wings and mysterious ways, have long fascinated—and, let’s be honest, sometimes ...

How these bats use their humongous genitals to mate — without penetration — is a method never seen in a mammal before, researchers report in the Nov. 20 Current Biology.

Bats have long been the odd ones out among mammals. They are the only creatures in this branch of the animal kingdom capable of powered flight. Now researchers say they have discovered another ...

Although Perky’s tower and the bat bait he used failed to lure the winged mammals, the peculiar monument became a local landmark. In 1982, it was added to the US National Register of Historic ...

It's the 16th Bat-a-thon in Belize. Researchers think the flying mammals can teach us about warding off pathogens and managing diabetes. They trap bats in nets, draw blood ... but no bats are harmed.

Bumblebee bats – aka Kitti’s hog-nosed bats, named after discoverer Kitti Thonglongya – are among the rarest bats in the world, and certifiably the smallest mammals, according to Guinness World ...

Just in time for Halloween — the Bat Beauty Contest celebrates the oft-feared flying mammals. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has pitted several of the small flying creatures against ...

They are the only mammals capable of true flight. There are over 1,300 different species of bats in the world – nine different species of bats can be found in Connecticut, and all but one of them (the ...