After nearly 25 years of research, the mystery has finally been solved: Europe's largest bat doesn't just eat small birds—it hunts and captures them more than a kilometer above the ground. And it eats ...

New research reveals that spectral bats, the world’s largest carnivorous bats, display affectionate social behaviours such as hugging and sharing food. Using infrared cameras in a Costa Rican forest, ...

To exploit a rich food resource that remains largely inaccessible to most predators, Europe’s largest bat captures, kills, and consumes nocturnally migrating birds in flight high above the ground, ...

Just shy of a mile from the Texas State Capitol, an estimated 140,000 visitors flock to downtown Austin each year to watch a record number of bats take flight. Within the cracks and crevices beneath ...

We know them. We love them. And much of the world misunderstands them. Flying hunters that come out at night, these mammals have gotten a bad rap over the years (think Dracula). South Texans, however, ...

Just in time for Halloween, six new bat species have been discovered by researchers from the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), Field Museum in Chicago, and Lawrence University in Wisconsin. This nocturnal – ...