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

Beyond bats’ symbolism as creepy creatures at Halloween, San Mateo County is a year-round home to a number of different ...

After nearly 25 years of investigation, scientists have solved the mystery. Europe’s largest bat not only eats small birds, it hunts and catches them more than a kilometer above the ground—and ...

HARTFORD, CT (WFSB) - Connecticut celebrates Bat Week from Oct. 24-31. The Department of Energy and Environmental Protection said the week is meant to celebrate the role bats play in the world’s ...

International Bat Week will be observed Oct. 24 to 31, 2025, including educational events and outings in Wisconsin.

The bats funnel out of the houses at high speeds to hunt throughout the night. A silence fell over Museum Road as the sunset, with spectators huddled around the wooden fence waiting for thousands of ...

Some 40 kilometers east of the Tanzanian coast in East Africa lies Latham Island, a rocky, utterly isolated and uninhabited ...

Europe’s largest bat hunts and eats birds midair, finally solving a 25-year mystery about how these nocturnal predators ...

Bats used to be thought of as spooky flying creatures, denizens of nightmares and scary stories -- but now we know that they are an incredibly important part of their local ecosystems. They pollinate ...

I don’t usually get the typical creepy-crawly feeling when it comes to wildlife, excluding snakes and very large spiders.

I had been to Texas countless times but had never visited Austin, the state’s capital. My wife had not been there either and heard there was a direct flight from Palm Springs. So, she arranged a trip, ...

Halloween came early to the BYU Engineering Building with an infestation of bats on the fourth floor beginning on Sept. 25.