In the Peru new research finds that female fruit bats are frequent visitors to clay-licks Clay-licks, or collpas as they are called in Peru, are visited by a wide assortment of animals, including ...

Bats from Central and South American that live on the nectar from flowers can see ultraviolet light. This was discovered by York Winter, a German researcher at Munich University and the ...

A new sighting of "Phyllostomus hastatus" from the bat family has stunned experts. The sighting, described in the journal Check List, is valuable, as this is the first time this creature has been ...

Bats are a remarkable evolutionary success story representing the second largest group of mammals, outnumbered only by rodents in number of species. Now, researchers have discovered the place that ...

Bats represent more than a fifth of all mammal species. Most bat species live in the tropics where they eat fruits and disperse their seeds, pollinate flowers and consume billions of insects. Bats ...

SAN JOSE (dpa) – Horrible, nasty, ugly things – bats and especially South American vampires with their incisor teeth instill terror in most people yet for ...

Bats are under great pressure as the landscape changes around them and their homes become more and more fragmented. A recent study looked into how important functional traits are in enabling bats in ...

Deep in the Bornean rainforest, a small woolly bat curls up for a nap inside of a carnivorous plant, designed by nature to devour insects that dare cross its path. So why isn't the bat on the menu?

On February 21, the Bush administration removed the gray wolf from the protections of the Endangered Species Act in Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming. Under the protection of the Act, the wolf population ...

Two greater spear-nosed bats were found roosting in the trunk of a large Kapok tree, which is also a novel finding, researchers said. Getty Images/iStockphoto Along the banks of the Lacantún River, a ...

This bat gleans insects from leaves. A team of researchers discovered that by approaching a leaf at an oblique angle, it can use its echolocation system to detect stationary insects in the dark. Inga ...

Along the banks of the Lacantún River, a hollow tree hid two creatures never before reported in Mexico. Just a stone’s throw from an “extensive, well‑preserved tract of tropical rainforest,” two ...