It’s more evidence a lab leak is very unlikely.

New model predicts how hairs on a bat’s tongue draw up nectar.

While pursuing prey in complete darkness, horseshoe bats can zip through dense vegetation guided solely by sound. Their only protection from the raging headache—or worse—of a headlong collision is the sound waves entering their two pointy ears.

Human blood is now on the menu. Wild vampire bats that were thought to exclusively feed on bird blood have been caught feeding on people for the first time, raising health concerns. By Sandrine Ceurstemont.

A machine learning algorithm helped decode the squeaks Egyptian fruit bats make in their roost, revealing that they “speak” to one another as individuals. By Jason Daley.

It appears at night, sneaks up behind its prey, and sucks its blood! Is it a vampire? No, it’s a vampire bat! Here are some bloody amazing facts about them for Halloween!

A flying insect that’s suddenly swallowed by a bat probably doesn’t have a lot of time to reflect on its fate. If it did, though, it might wonder how on Earth the swooping mammal managed to grab it with so little warning.

How do you describe a creature who defies all logic? One that melts your heart while it pesters you relentlessly? One that outsmarts you at every turn, while you enjoy the manipulation? We’ve racked our brains for an answer, and always come back to the same description, it’s “Peekaboo.”

Bats sleep upside down, so how come they don’t fall? Turns out that they’ve got some unusual legs.

Everyone has an opinion regarding bats, which makes them rather polarizing. You’re either intrigued by the creatures, or purely terrified by them.

The ACRES Wildlife Rescue Team help a fruit bat find her baby.

The baby fruit bat was found stranded just two hours before the reunion. ACRES (Animal Concerns Research & Education Society) Wildlife Rescue Team gathered the bat from a local animal lover and took it back to the area his mother was in.

The move to ramp down turbines during the fall migration season is "a big deal," says one scientist.

Imagine: a quiet, tense night in the middle of wartime. A plane rips through the air above your city, rupturing the stillness. The bay doors open, and out whistles a bomb. It drops and drops. Everyone braces. But when it explodes, the city is filled not with the flash of impact, but with hundreds and hundreds of tiny, whirling bats. This was Project: X-Ray.

For starters, old females are tougher than young males, according to a new study on these little-known mammals. By Rachel A. Becker.

For the first time, scientists have successfully treated bats infected with White-Nose Syndrome.

The latest Ebola crisis may yield clues about where it hides between outbreaks. By David Quammen.

A large, meat-eating pitcher plant in Borneo has evolved a unique way to communicate with bats that it hopes to attract.