New species of bat, Pipistrellus etula, on Bioko Island, bringing the total number of known species worldwide to 1,500.

Researchers discovered bats will glow green when exposed to ultraviolet light in a process known as photoluminescence.

Bats usually get cast as spooky night dwellers who dart through the dark or hang upside down in attics. But there’s a lot more to them than Halloween stories suggest.

The glow-in-the-dark bats you're hanging to decorate for Halloween might be more biologically accurate than you thought.

Six bat species glow bright green under UV light after they've died for over 100 years but it's a mystery why.

Without the help of the specialist cameras, the bats are near impossible to spot, lost in the darkness. About a third of the ...

Collecting a vampire bat’s feces is not an easy task. You must go into the jungle, to the cave where the bats live, then lurk at the entrance at dawn or dusk. As the bats come winging in or out, you ...

The Houston Arboretum and Nature Center is hosting a pair of bat related events Sept. 22 and 23, including Bat Fest, an event celebrating the many species of bats that live in greater Houston and what ...

Rats have been observed snatching bats out of the air and eating them for the first time, raising concern about pandemic ...

Bat Week across Connecticut is in full swing ahead of Halloween. According to Connecticut’s Department of Energy and ...

A study published in Communications Biology sheds new light on the relationship between bats and dangerous viruses. Led by ...