DES MOINES, Iowa (IOWA CAPITAL DISPATCH) - Iowa has nine species of bats, two of which are federally endangered species. The Iowa Department of Natural Resources highlighted its frequent bat surveys ...

Connecticut is home to nine different species of bats, but due to disease and habitat loss, bats across the state have seen dramatic population declines, making them now a rare and elusive sight, ...

We are better off with bats. These bat facts will make you rethink the unsung heroes of the night and learn why you should ...

Wyoming Seminary Lower School’s pre-kindergarten class learned more about bats from Susan Gallagher, director of the Carbon County Environmental Education Center in Jim Thorpe. A big brown bat, a ...

Families are invited to celebrate Bat Appreciation Day at the Old New-Gate Prison and Copper Mine on Sunday, Sept. 15. Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection‘s Wildlife Division ...

If your interview subject tells you she goes home and eats half her body weight every night, it might be cause for concern. Unless you're interviewing a particularly chatty cave myotis bat named Mindy ...

Some of the deadliest viral diseases that infect people are carried by bats, like Nipah virus (which has mortality rate of 40 to 70 percent in infected people), Ebola virus, and Marburg virus (which ...

Gliselle Marin joins the "Bat-a-thon," a group of 80-some bat researchers who converge on Belize each year to study these winged mammals. This scientist has a bat tat and earrings. She says there's a ...

An inconspicuous moth appears to be a critical factor in the winter survival of island bats. Bats neither hibernate nor migrate in the San Juan Islands. Instead, they disperse widely in the autumn and ...

Well, not the kind of candy you buy in a sweets shop. Rather, they like fruit, which is rich in sugar. “We call it nature’s candy,” says Wei Gordon, a biologist at Menlo College. She was catching ...