Glowing bats may sound like Halloween decor, but researchers in Georgia have discovered certain species of North American ...

For all their benefits, the world's only flying mammals continue to be the subject of several myths. One misconception is that they all carry rabies. "The truth is that maybe less than a percent of ...

Sensor data reveal greater noctule bats chasing, catching and chewing on birds during high-altitude, nighttime hunts.

To find out, Elena Tena, a biologist at Doñana Biological Station in Seville, Spain, and her colleagues attached ultra-light ...

"Lots of things fly at night," says Harlan Gough, a wildlife biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Nightfall can set the stage for an acrobatic high-stakes drama in the air — a swirl of ...

For the first time, brown rats have been filmed actively hunting bats, snatching some from the air and capturing others on ...

Aarhus University in Denmark put trackers on greater noctule bats – the largest bats in Europe – and heard the distress calls of robins, before 23 minutes of munching.

KELLY: Bats flying out of their caves by the thousands, sometimes tens of thousands. Across the world, it happens every night. And for the bats, you might think it was a nightmare, too - a traffic ...