Bats aren’t much different from any other creature. “They’re looking for three things: food, shelter, and water,” says Kyle Morgan of Care Pest Pros, a pest control company in Spicewood, Texas. Your ...

A GOOD REMINDER TO CHECK YOUR ATTICS, BATS ARE RETURNING TO THE AREA THIS TIME OF YEAR, OFTEN WEASELING THEIR WAY INTO VENTS OF PEOPLE’S HOMES. AND IF YOU DISCOVER ABOUT PROBLEM IN YOUR ATTIC BETWEEN ...

On the outskirts of Calhoun on a warm morning early last month, three Georgia Department of Natural Resources (DNR) wildlife biologists carrying flashlights led a group of 20 people beneath a noisy ...

Louisiana leaders on Monday issued a call for the public’s help in completing a census of the state’s bat population. The goal is to avert a plague that has killed more than six million of the flying ...

When bats aren't flying, they often dangle from cave ceilings or the undersides of bridges. But why do bats sleep upside down? This topsy-turvy behavior may result from the evolutionary journey bats ...

Bats seem to be everywhere this time of year. Their little silhouettes hang as holiday decorations fashioned out of plastic on festive front porches and shop windows, just next to the skeletons and ...

Animal experts in Belarus, Eastern Europe are rescuing bats and letting them hang out in a special fridge to help them survive. There are more than 1,100 species of bats around the world and they ...

Most library-goers don’t get to enjoy a bit of nature while pursuing books; not so for Portugal’s Joanine Library. A colony of bats has called the library home since the 18th century. The fascinating ...

There are over 1,400 bat species in the world, and they are almost exclusively nocturnal. Bats have traditionally been classified as Microchiroptera, or microbats, and Megachiroptera, or megabats.