Still, don’t get overly sentimental. The team also recorded strong heart rate reactions when the mothers heard calls from the ...

Biologists hope Bat Week will raise awareness of the issues targeting state bat populations.

A bat found dead in northeast St. Joseph has tested positive for rabies after a puppy picked up the animal and carried it in ...

New York environmental officials are urging people to stay out of caves and mines this fall and winter because waking hibernating bats can exhaust the fat reserves they need to survive until spring.

A bat found dead in the St. Mary area of Glacier National Park has tested positive for white nose syndrome, marking the first ...

Artificial roosts for bats, also known as "bat boxes", can reach deadly temperatures during heatwaves, a study has found. Climate change-driven heatwave rises may make historically safe roosts ...

The recent rescue of the juvenile bat in Lancaster, Pennsylvania involved teamwork from the beginning. The “sky puppy” had been hanging on a local porch for two days. While that might not sound off, ...

[Tony Messina] had been fascinated with bat’s echolocation since he was a kid. After he retired, he decided to act on this fascination and built a simple bat detector. The simple bat detector uses ...

Angela Nelson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning digital editor and storyteller who covered a variety of general interest stories on MNN (now part of Treehugger) from 2014-2019. If a bat has found its way ...

Studies have demonstrated that ~60%–80% of emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) in humans originated from wild life. Bats are natural reservoirs of a large variety of viruses, including many important ...

The Indiana Bat has reached record numbers since the species was first discovered within a southern Indiana cave in 1928.