In the dead of winter, bats should be in a deep sleep. But at Great Smoky Mountains National Park, they're out and about, flying erratically in many cases, acting crazy. Out of nowhere, they’ve ...

Real-life "batmen" discover that when it comes to competing for food at dinnertime, it's a bat-blast-bat world out there. Freelancer Michael Franco writes about the serious and silly sides of science ...

Some of the deadliest viral diseases that infect people are carried by bats, like Nipah virus (which has mortality rate of 40 to 70 percent in infected people), Ebola virus, and Marburg virus (which ...

Bats have been acting erratically in a Utah national park, and a visitor was even bitten, wildlife officials said. Then park officials said one turned up with rabies right outside the visitor center ...

A roost of common vampire bats, Desmodus rotundus. Credit: Uwe Schmidt/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 4.0 Vampire bats have complex social networks, forming relationships with other bats that can vary on ...

MOAB, Utah (KUTV) — A bat found outside the Arches National Park Visitor Center has tested positive for rabies, prompting concerns about potential exposure to visitors. In recent weeks, the park ...

Researchers used wireless neural recording and imaging devices to 'listen in' on the hippocampal brain activity of groups of Egyptian fruit bats as they flew freely within a large flight room. The ...

A new study from the School of Zoology at Tel Aviv University reveals that fruit bats employ a variety of strategies in their competition with other animals for food. The research team examined bat ...

We've gone less than a week since the latest on-field kerfuffle stemming from a bat flip, so it's no surprise that the debate over whether or not there's too much celebration in baseball is raging on.

We test the hypothesis that echolocation behavior can be used to find the border between bat habitats. Assuming that bats react to background targets in "edge space" but not in "open space", we ...

The Florida Gators men's baseball team opened their three-game series against the Texas Longhorns with an 8-2 victory. But, much of the chatter ended up revolving around a Texas player's at-bat. Jonah ...