In Panama’s forests, researchers discovered that tiny fringe-lipped bats hunt with the patience and precision of big cats.

A new international study led by researchers from Aarhus University and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) reveals that small bats can be just as efficient predators as lions—and often ...

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, ...

Even for the world’s largest carnivorous bat, a hug is the best hello. Spectral bats are far more cooperative than researchers long assumed, routinely greeting one another with wing wraps and even ...

Researchers have captured video of an unexpected predator at two bat hibernation sites in northern Germany: invasive brown rats that lie in wait to intercept the bats mid-flight. “Because bats in ...

So many Mexican free-tail bats fly out of the Bracken Bat Cave on a summer evening that their spiral path creates a vortex of rising air that helps lift the bats, drawing out even more. In a few hours ...

They’re not just Halloween decorations and they’re not trying to suck your blood, but bats are a crucial part of New York’s nature scene. For Bat Appreciation Week (Oct. 24-31), here are some notable ...

Vineyard with integrated pest management near Káptalantóti, in the Balaton Uplands region, Hungary. Land use change and the increased agrochemical use associated with agricultural intensification ...

Vampire bats are a Halloween staple, and now they’ve got company. Another bat species snatches birds out of the air for a gruesome midnight feast. For years, scientists have tried to understand how ...