A team of mechanical and biological engineers at Cornell University and the Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Brown ...

Greater mouse-tailed bats crawl backwards over cave walls, and it seems they use their long tails to help feel their way ...

From its white, fluffy fur to its cozy sleepover parties, the Honduran white bat is so unbelievably cute it’s hard to believe ...

Some humans like to think of themselves as good multitaskers, but bats may do it better. Many bat species have the ability to fly while simultaneously drinking water — but unlike people who try ...

Did you know that there are over 3,000 different species of centipedes, and scientists believe that there could be 5,000+ ...

Researchers are hoping that by solving the mystery of why bats can harbor viruses like hantavirus and coronavirus — pathogens ...

Plants use toxic chemicals to protect themselves from insects, herbivores, and pathogens. But they also need to attract ...

Without pollinators, we wouldn’t have one out of every three bites of food we eat. That’s because about 35 percent of the ...

Imagine being able to fly through pitch-black caves, dart between tree branches at midnight, and snatch a tiny insect out of ...

Imagine gliding through a pitch-black forest at midnight, dodging branches and catching tiny insects in midair—without using ...

McLinden is a graduate student at Kansas State University studying the bat population in the Flint Hills. On the table before her was a glass box holding five different bat specimens. All were in ...

Why bats can harbor viruses like hantavirus and coronavirus—pathogens that are highly dangerous to humans—without becoming ...