This species is also the smallest bat in the United States weighing in at only 3 to 6 grams — think a sheet of paper. The Mexican free-tailed bats are the large colonies that live in the bridges ...

(Bats can sing—and this species might be crooning love songs.) On many nights, some five to 10 million straw-colored fruit bats leave their fig-tree roosts in Zambia’s Kasanka National Park.

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Southern Arizona’s only wind-energy farm is under a federal criminal investigation because its turbines killed an endangered bat and a federally protected golden eagle, law enforcement officials ...

Concern around declining bat population exists because bats are beneficial to our ecosystem. Bats benefit the agriculture ...

Solar-powered trap camera footage captured as many as 14 predator species preying on the bats of Python Cave in Queen Elizabeth National Park in Uganda. Bosco Atukwatse/Kyambura Lion Project ...

Dehradun: A new bat species, the Himalayan long-tailed myotis (Myotis himalaicus), has been discovered in the high-altitude forests of Uttarakhand, pa.

As summer leads to more bat-human interactions in Vermont, wildlife officials provide guidance on safely managing unexpected ...

Scientists caught soft brown bat with strong claws in net trap in forests and discovered an elusive new species: Himalayan long-tailed Myotis, study said.

A photo shows the new species’ “dense, soft and relatively long” hair. Overall, the mouse-eared bat’s fur is “dark brown” with some lighter hues mixed in and a paler golden-brown belly.

A new-to-science Himalayan bat has blurred the India-Pakistan divide. A team of Indian scientists documented 29 species of bats during a series of surveys in the Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand ...