Bat colonies can reach truly enormous sizes, some with millions of bats pouring out to feed each night, and one cave in Texas has the largest of them all.

Bats in the noctilionoid group, like Darwin’s finches, have evolved an impressive variety of jaw and tooth adaptations to ...

scientists believe it emerged over millions of years as the cockroaches gradually shifted from terrestrial habitats to the warm, protected microenvironment provided by bat caves. The sternal gland ...

Mexican long-nosed bats have been identified in southeastern Arizona through citizen scientist efforts and innovative DNA technology.

Indiana listed the bat as an endangered species in the same decade due to “human disturbance of caves that bats use for winter hibernating,” according to DNR. Since being listed, Indiana bats ...