Bats typically eat insects, fruit, nectar, and pollen. However, three outlier bat species make meals of larger creatures: the ...

Bats in the tropics of the Americas are a reservoir for morbilliviruses—a genus of RNA viruses that includes the human ...

Scientists have found a way to sample DNA out of the air on a large scale — making it possible to one day track the health ...

But a few scientists have provided useful data. During the 1991 total eclipse, cave-roosting common vampire bats and Geoffroy's tailless bats showed no behavioral changes at the Grutas de la ...

There are few shows as full of humor and chaos as What We Do in the Shadows. Created by Jemaine Clement, this mockumentary ...

Their saliva contains unique anticoagulant compounds including draculin, which prevents blood clotting during feeding sessions that typically last 20-30 minutes but can extend to 40 minutes for the ...

Vampire Bats- They live in family groups ... via Wikimedia Commons The range of species found in Texas includes both common species like the Mexican free-tailed bat and rare ones such as the cave ...

Scientists have learned that another species of fungus found in Europe and Asia causes white-nose disease, which has ravaged ...

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