Scientists observed a family of four spectral bats in their roost in a tree in Costa Rica, capturing an inside look at their social behavior ...

When Marisa Tietge, a research assistant and doctoral student at the Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science ...

Source: Melinda Caric, via Flickr. When biologist Eran Amichai got his first close-up view of a nectar-eating bat about ten years ago, he couldn’t help but notice its whiskers. “They were completely ...

This Artibeus fruit bat feasts on sugary fruit every night but these winged mammals don’t suffer from diabetes or other metabolic problems as humans might if we were to gorge on sugar. Updated August ...

A poisonous species of spider has been found eating bats for the first time. Researchers at the National University of Ireland in Galway studying the noble false widow spider found it preying on a ...