Epidemic-causing viruses are linked to a small number of bat families, not bats as a whole, improving outbreak prevention ...

Michigan law bans feeding deer in the Lower Peninsula. But what about the squirrels, birds and bunnies that wander into your backyard?

On night walks through Highgate Wood, Cindy Blaney shares the whirling wonder of the often-maligned mammals with the humans ...

In the early 2000s, José Juan Flores Martínez was studying for a bachelor’s degree in biology and working as a volunteer in a ...

Human beings are not the only ones with a sweet tooth. Fruit bats are named after their love of sugary fruits. In fact, they ...

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A Lancaster County man and woman were collectively charged with 40 offenses this week after police said they physically abused their six children with baseball bats, neglected several animals and kept ...

WAKE COUNTY, N.C. (WTVD) -- A Wake County maintenance crew made an unusual discovery after lifting a manhole cover: a large colony of bats living inside an underground stormwater system. Wildlife ...

A couple from Elizabethtown repeatedly struck six children in their care with baseball bats over multiple years and left their home “unfit for human occupancy,” according to Elizabethtown Borough ...

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Worker honeybees are meticulous housekeepers, and that includes dealing with bee poop. While they leave the hive to defecate, the queen does not. And younger bees aren't always able to either. Workers ...

In the dark forests of Panama, a bat no larger than your thumb is rewriting the rules of hunting. The fringe-lipped bat (Trachops cirrhosus), long known for its peculiar taste for frogs, has just ...