Video from a national park in Uganda depicted a parade of predatory species feeding on and dispersing fruit bats that are known natural reservoirs of infectious diseases.

The fungus grows only at the cool temperatures in a bat’s hibernating ... The two species of fungi seem to specialize on certain species of bats, although Puechmaille’s team has discovered ...

In the wild, bat-eared foxes can be found in in the grasslands and savannah of southern and eastern Africa. They face threats from habitat loss due to human activity like farming, building homes and ...

Texas has 33 species of bats, making it one of the more diverse ... Bats tend to roost deeper in the cave when it’s cool, which would mean they’d have less chance of noticing a solar eclipse ...

Not only do the boxes shelter the bats, keeping them out of homes, they also help keep the local insect population under ...

Here are some cool facts we learnt from Nalini Ramachandran’s new children’s book, Once Upon a Beginning, which offers ...

The cave was apparently once believed to be an entrance into the underworld by the Lipan Apache, according to Jasper Gaffney, ...

With many different species entering torpor for a variety of reasons, scientists are looking to their sleepy secrets for ways ...

If you live near certain bodies of water, then you know it’s that time of the year when you need to make sure all your lights ...

As I witness this spring ritual, I’m reminded that this preserve, and many others like it, serves as a home to hundreds of species of plants and animals, while also providing us with a place to escape ...