Many people begin to think about scary things as the Halloween season approaches and bats are often among the things that elicit fear and dread. Hollywood’s portrayal of bats are primarily negative ...

I was comforted to hear that I wasn't the only one who'd been awakened in the dead of night by a bat flying around the house. “We’ve gotten tons of calls for bats this week,” said Nate Atwater, a ...

A fossil found in Wyoming has apparently resolved a long-standing question about when bats gained their radar-like ability to navigate and locate airborne insects at night. The answer: after they ...

It is Bat Week, an international celebration of the flying mammals and their importance. I visited the San Diego Zoo Safari Park to get some bat facts. Bats get a bad rap. Maybe it's Bram Stoker's ...

Move over Batman, there's a new flying mammal making news. While taping their Good Morning Tennessee program, ABC affiliate WATE in Knoxville had a bat fly into their studio. The anchors become ...

"Lots of things fly at night," says Harlan Gough, a wildlife biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Nightfall can set the stage for an acrobatic high-stakes drama in the air — a swirl of ...

Bat flies represent a remarkably diverse group of obligate, haematophagous ectoparasites that specialise in parasitising bats. Their evolution is inextricably linked to that of their chiropteran hosts ...

The stereotypical image of blood-sucking creatures is gone. In reality, bats are docile and help our ecosystems run smoothly.

Editor's note: Additional advice on how to handle a bat encounter has been added to this story. I was comforted to hear that I wasn't the only one who'd been awakened in the dead of night by a bat ...