FILE – In this photo shot from a television screen provided by the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and ...

West Virginia is home to fourteen species of bats, from the common big brown bat to the very rare Rafinesque’s big-eared bat.

Mollie Byrne recalls spending summers with her family at a camp on the Juniata River in Bedford County, in south central ...

Three years later, Honus Wagner's big league career began with the ... turning the dead ball era on its ear. Ruth swung heavy bats -- it's one of the things for which he's most well known.

More than 300 species of fruit depend on bats for pollination. There are more than a dozen species that call Virginia home, including the Virginia big-eared bat, the Seminole bat and the evening bat.

Another species, the Ozark Big-Eared Bat, is also showing positive signs of recovery. The AGFC has been studying a population at Devil’s Den State Park since the 1970s. Gates were installed on ...

To learn whether bats’ hearing degrades with time, Grace Capshaw at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, and her colleagues estimated the ages of wild-caught big brown bats ...

It also bested a Townsend's big-eared bat named "Sir Flaps-A-Lot" from Utah, among others.The victory marks the third year in a row that a bat from Oregon has taken first place in the contest.

Honorable mentions in the competition also went to “Robert Battinson,” “Batt Damon,” “Sir Flaps-A-Lot the Townsend’s big-eared bat” and “Batlor Swift” — who promised not to hav ...

Last year's winner was a female Townsend’s big-eared bat from Butte Falls, William ShakespEAR. She took home the crown on Oct. 31, 2023. During her final round, she beat Gizmo, an Allen'sBig ...