A new study found that animals in urban areas give birth earlier than their rural counterparts. A research team at Tel ...

Of course, not all bats eat bugs, but the vegetarian ones play just as significant of a role in our ecosystem. Nectar-eating bats are major pollinators for many of the edible plants we know and love.

Cristobal Serrano (Spain) illuminates the darkness, revealing the scarlet tongue of a nectar-loving bat as it feeds. Photographing nectar-eating bats pollinating flowers at night is a challenge. But ...

A nectar-feeding bat uses a blood-powered hydraulic process to control hair-like structures on its tongue to efficiently slurp up the sugary liquid from flowers. Amid cuts to federal funding, US ...

With the exception of three flower-eating species that migrate from Mexico, the bats in the United States are insectivorous. Those species that eat pollen, nectar, and in some instances, petals from ...

“I don't believe anyone suspected that the brush-like papillae on the tips of these bat tongues were so organized, let alone dynamic and moveable. The use of pressurized blood to erect the papillae ...

Lesser long-nosed bats are migratory animals. They spend the winter in central Mexico then follow the scent of blooming flowers—often called the "nectar trail"—as far north as southern Arizona ...

but this is the first continuous recording of a bat eating entire leaves Elisabeth King Portrait of a Seba’s short-tailed bat, Carollia perspicillata. Mariana Muñoz-Romo Tropical bats eat ...