Raisin is a Jamaican fruit bat who has defied the odds her entire life. From terrible beginnings as a pup in a lab, she’s now an elderly resident at Bat World Sanctuary, living out her retirement to ...

Bats often get a bad rap, but Bat World Sanctuary is on a mission to change that, one rescued wing at a time. This nonprofit organization rescues, rehabilitates, and provides lifetime care for ...

Most library-goers don’t get to enjoy a bit of nature while pursuing books; not so for Portugal’s Joanine Library. A colony of bats has called the library home since the 18th century. The fascinating ...

It's hard out there for a bat: not only do the flying mammals suffer from a terrible public image (bats do not, as rumor has it, roost in hair or necessarily carry rabies) but their very existence is ...

Bat World Sanctuary in Weatherford, about 70 miles west of Dallas, is warning residents of "raining bats" as disease takes over a local colony, leaving bats stranded across Downtown Mineral Wells.

Everybody who visits Kasanka National Park in Zambia during “bat season” agrees that the evening emergence of African straw-coloured fruit bats from their roost site is one of the wildlife wonders of ...