With a large net and a stroke of luck, scientists have discovered a new species of bat that has bright orange fur and black wings. The researchers describe the species, which they name Myotis ...

Bats are sweet, whimsical, diverse, and essential as eaters of insects, many, many insects. A Clark University bat walk ...

Oregon is home to 15 bat species. As we approach warmer weather, bats hibernating in caves are beginning to wake up and those that migrated away are making their way back. While bats can prey on fruit ...

Four of the nine species of Adirondack bats belong to the genus Myotis, the mouse-eared bats. The little brown bat is the most abundant of the four, and is the common bat of the region. During the ...

Nature’s pest patrol: Bats consume massive numbers of insects, including mosquitoes and agricultural pests, reducing the need for pesticides and benefiting both crops and the environment. Pollination ...

Ten years ago, Iroro Tanshi found something incredible in a cave in Nigeria: a colony of short-tailed roundleaf bats, a ...

For a quarter century, public health officials have spoken about bats with a kind of nervous shorthand. They are reservoirs of SARS, MERS, Ebola, Marburg, Hendra, and Nipah. A new study suggests that ...