It was Lucy May’s big debut as a bat dog for a minor league baseball team. As the Clearwater Threshers’ official bat dog, Lucy May, a 10-month-old Labrador retriever, was tasked with retrieving bats ...

The Chicago Department of Public Health is advising concertgoers who may have come in contact with a bat to consider "rabies post-exposure prophylaxis" Jack Irvin has worked at PEOPLE since 2022. He ...

CHCAGO — The Chicago Department of Public Health issued a warning that attendees of a recent outdoor concert at the popular Salt Shed music venue may have been exposed to rabies-carrying bats.

There are over 1,400 bat species in the world, and they are almost exclusively nocturnal. Bats have traditionally been classified as Microchiroptera, or microbats, and Megachiroptera, or megabats.