Bats vanish the moment the sun rises, slipping into a hidden world most people never think to question. Their daytime lives ...

For more than 400 years, an oil painting titled Air by Flemish master Jan Brueghel the Elder has been hiding a scientific ...

Researchers have recorded two bat species in Mizoram for the first time in India. The findings extend their known range into South Asia and underline the region's biodiversity value.

Some bat species are more likely to be found in cities than in the countryside. A scientific team has now investigated which characteristics are typical for urban and rural bats. The team found that ...

A small bat from the Western Himalayas has now been recognized as a new species, and it comes with two features that are hard to miss once you know where to look. The animal, named Myotis himalaicus ...

When the North American Bat Conservation Alliance (NABCA) released its first ever State of Bats report this spring, it was intended as a baseline record of how bat species in North America were faring ...

A joint team of researchers from India and Hungary has recorded two bat species in India for the first time—Glischropus ...

The Biden administration declared the northern long-eared bat endangered on Tuesday in a last-ditch effort to save a species driven to the brink of extinction by white-nose syndrome, a fungal disease.

Bats are considered one of the best-adapted mammalian groups in terrestrial and particularly arboreal environments. Bats come in all spaces and sizes, from the penny-sized Kitti's hog-nosed bat to the ...