Bats sometimes get a bad rap, but these fascinating facts show how they pollinate plants, control insects and thrive in the ...

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

Like bumblebees, bats benefit agriculture. They pollinate more than 300 varieties of fruit, including mangoes and bananas, as ...

The racket that Egyptian fruit bats make when jammed next to each other contains information about food, sleeping arrangements and mating attempts. Bats are noisy creatures, especially in their ...

A new study from the School of Zoology at Tel Aviv University reveals that fruit bats employ a variety of strategies in their ...

More than four dozen Jamaican fruit bats destined for a lab in Bozeman, Montana, are set to become part of an experiment with an ambitious goal: predicting the next global pandemic. Bats worldwide are ...

According to several social media users, the new bat design on the 2020 U.S. quarter proves the government knew about the coronavirus pandemic before the first confirmed case and kept it hidden. "It ...

A study published in Communications Biology sheds new light on the relationship between bats and dangerous viruses. Led by ...

The high-pitched squeals of the humble bat may be as complex as the calls of dolphins and monkeys, researchers have found. A study published on 22 December in Scientific Reports1 reveals that the ...