Animal services collected the bat and sent it to the Sacramento County Public Health Lab, where testing confirmed it had ...

New research from the University of St Andrews has created the largest combined study of bat genomes and fossils ever ...

While much of the world sleeps, vampire bats emerge from dark caves, mines, tree hollows, and abandoned buildings in Mexico ...

An increase in the number of bats testing positive for rabies has experts warning people never to interact with wildlife.

[Tony Messina] had been fascinated with bat’s echolocation since he was a kid. After he retired, he decided to act on this fascination and built a simple bat detector. The simple bat detector uses ...

School officials can’t figure out how their building became a bat haven with eight found in just over two weeks - Washington’s protected-wildlife rules limit how the school can handle the creatures ...

Artificial roosts for bats, also known as "bat boxes", can reach deadly temperatures during heatwaves, a study has found. Climate change-driven heatwave rises may make historically safe roosts ...

A bat found in Long Beach has tested positive for rabies, marking the city’s first confirmed detection in more than a decade, health officials announced Friday. The bat was submitted to the Long Beach ...

Angela Nelson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning digital editor and storyteller who covered a variety of general interest stories on MNN (now part of Treehugger) from 2014-2019. If a bat has found its way ...