New species of bat, Pipistrellus etula, on Bioko Island, bringing the total number of known species worldwide to 1,500.

Halloween is an opportunity to celebrate that which is creepy, spooky, scary, and sometimes stranger than fiction. And for ...

Panama's tiny fringe-lipped bats, weighing just 30 grams, hunt with the patience and precision of lions, defying traditional ...

Researchers discovered bats will glow green when exposed to ultraviolet light in a process known as photoluminescence.

A recent study identifies a consistent glow across six species of North American bats, but the underlying reason for the ...

While the neon glow may surprise us, the reality for the animals experiencing it might be very different. Bats don’t have a black light to shine on one another under the dark of night, and the moon ...

Laura Torrent did not know that the tiny brown bat she caught in early 2024 would become a global milestone for biodiversity ...

After decades of mystery, scientists have finally proven that Europe’s largest bat, the greater noctule, hunts and eats small ...

Scientists discovered that a tiny Panamanian bat hunts like a lion, catching large prey using sound, patience, and precision.

Bats can get a bad reputation, especially around Halloween when their imagery is used to spook and scare, but Westrich and ...

Six species of North American bats glow under ultraviolet lighting, according to a new study. Researchers don’t know why ...