Bat Beauty Contest entrants include a myotis bat such as this one. Bat beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Some people find Sir Flaps-a-Lot irresistibly cute, while others think Hoary Potter and ...

Because bats are small, secretive, feed at night, and are unfamiliar to most people, they are sometimes regarded as rare. On the contrary, they are found throughout the world except for certain ...

May the best bat win. The Bureau of Land Management is hosting its fifth annual bat beauty contest in celebration of bat week, pitting some of the most popular winged creatures of the night ...

Bats have long been associated with Halloween, but at many U.S. domestic and overseas military installations they’re more than just a symbol of the season. They’re permanent residents that ...

The holidays may be shorthand for all of those that take place November through January but there are plenty of holidays that ...

Most bats, including those in Idaho, consume large quantities of insects, such as moths, flies, and mosquitoes. They provide free pest control by eating the insects that harm crops, saving U.S ...

Luckily, they’re only imaginary … or are they? There are real vampires in the world of bats. Out of over 1,400 currently described bat species, three are known to feed on blood exclusively.

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This undated image provided by the Bureau of Land Management shows the bat Hoary Potter. (Emma Busk/Bureau ...

Vampire bats have become such specialized bloodsuckers that they metabolize their food more like some blood-feeding flies than like other known mammals, a new experiment shows. The common vampire ...

Researchers tracked how vampire bats processed their blood meals as they sped along a treadmill for up to 90 minutes. Trilobites Scientists put the bloodsucking mammals on a treadmill to ...