State health investigators are asking for the public’s help to determine if a local pest control company has been giving incorrect rabies test results and inconsistently sending in bats and other ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For some reason October is our national Bat Appreciation Month, with Bat Appreciation Week at the end of the month including ...

Long-lived bats appear to share genetic defenses against viruses, cancer, and aging. Studying how these systems overlap may ...

Arizona ranks second in the country for bat diversity, with a new species detected as recently as last year.

Until 2017, a solitary wooden tower about 9 m tall, pyramid shaped, and supported by sturdy posts stood on a small island in the Florida Keys. A fishing lodge owner named Richter Clyde Perky built ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment.View full profile Rachael has a degree in Zoology ...

For one species of bats, bumping uglies has just taken on a whole new meaning. A group of scientists observed a population of serotine bats in Europe and found that these animals are the only mammals ...

Researchers discovered vesper bats have two unique gene sets for antibody production. This unusual genetic arrangement has ...

A study published in Science Advances found that vesper bats, the world’s largest bat family, carry two distinct copies of ...

The National Park Service is trying to warn an unidentified woman after a bat that later tested positive for rabies swooped down on her head. According to an August 12 press release, a woman who was ...

Social media is going batty for a “human-sized” bat. Twitter user @AlexJoestar622 posted a photo that seemingly showed an extremely large, black-winged mammal just hanging out. The snap was taken in ...

Bats are an important part of the ecosystem, eating pesky insects most humans hate. Sellers market bat homes, man-made roosts, to encourage them to stick around and eat insects. Tennessee is home to ...