As soon as the first ever flowers unfurled from their buds in the early Cretaceous period, they were visited by pollinators.

The blackened husks, leaking caramelized nectar, are then pounded into ... had installed equipment at the mouth of the cave to collect data from bats they had previously tagged.

When they emerge at night in large numbers, bats avoid colliding with each other by adjusting both their flight patterns and ...

As twilight settles, the world’s most misunderstood mammals take to the skies. Bats, with their leathery wings and mysterious ...

Inside the gaping mouth of Mammoth Cave, hibernating bats sleep in permanent twilight, each huddled in its own limestone crevice. Every fall, these big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus) squeeze their ...

Have you ever walked through a garden on a warm night, unaware that tiny, winged mammals are silently working above your head ...

The insects can eat twice their body weight in sugary fruit without increasing their blood sugar. What’s going on in their ...

The lesser long-nosed bat depends on nectar and fruits and is known to migrate from southern Mexico to the southwestern United States each year following nectar blooms of columnar cacti and agave ...

Every year on International Bat Appreciation Day (April 17), we get a chance to celebrate all that bats do for the world and its ecosystems. A California leaf-nosed bat flies. From snapping up bugs in ...

Their clever minds and tiny paws make quick work as they eagerly slurp up the nectar. Some species of bats, such as the lesser long-nosed bat in the Southwestern United States, regularly eat nectar, ...