Conservationists and communities are planting thousands of agave plants to protect endangered bats, and the future of ...

They don't know it, but Darwin's finches changed the world. These closely related species—native to the Galapagos Islands—each sport a uniquely shaped beak that matches their preferred diet. Studying ...

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. Updated August ...

Bats get a bad rap. They’re tied to Halloween decorations, vampire legends, and the occasional panicked reaction when one ...

Bats usually get cast as spooky night dwellers who dart through the dark or hang upside down in attics. But there’s a lot ...

The authors of the study, published today (May 6) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, claim that the physiological mechanism driving this rapid transformation of the tongue tip could ...

Well, not the kind of candy you buy in a sweets shop. Rather, they like fruit, which is rich in sugar. “We call it nature’s candy,” says Wei Gordon, a biologist at Menlo College. She was catching ...