Madagascar flying foxes (Pteropus rufus) are shrinking. They have been getting smaller over the past several decades, which ...
From eavesdropping to echolocation tricks, science is giving us an inside look into how various bat species weaponize sound ...
Often associated with disease, vampires, and other generally unpleasant things, bats are actually important pollinators and play critical roles in our ecosystem. “They’re just so cool and so ...
The world’s biggest bats are shrinking, reveals new research. Flying fox fruit bats are getting smaller — and it may be down ...
Meet Batty White, Chappell Flown, Ryan Goswing and the other creatures of the night bat-tling for your votes in Bat Week 2026 ...
Bats are also infamous as carriers of deadly pathogens, a reputation which even bat enthusiasts admit is not entirely undeserved. “Bats are reservoirs for viruses that cause the highest case fatality ...
Scientists are learning more about the rarely seen spectral bat, Latin America’s “jaguar on the wing.” A spectral bat, the largest bat species in the Western Hemisphere, consumes a short-tailed fruit ...
On March 18, 1922, the first bat mitzvah was held. A 12-year-old girl named Judith Kaplan Eisenstein became the first American girl to enjoy that rite of passage. Since then, nearly one million girls ...
"Torpedo bats," like the one shown here used by New York Yankees player Jazz Chisholm Jr., have a slightly bulbous shape that's similar to a bowling pin. Mike Stobe / Getty Images Ever since the New ...