International Bat Week will be observed Oct. 24 to 31, 2025, including educational events and outings in Wisconsin.

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has pitted several of the small flying creatures against each other for the competition. Entrants come with names including Hoary Potter and Honey Bunches of ...

Furry, feisty, and often on the wing, bats are tricky to observe, let alone to protect. Some species hibernate deep in caves ...

At first Monica and Isaiah Grant thought the small black bat flying in their rental home in Savannah, Georgia was a fluke. After all, bats are common in the Georgian coastal city, where the family had ...

On a dark night in northern Belize in early May, Gliselle Marin stands in the middle of a patchy forest in the Lamanai Archaeological Reserve, about a two-hour drive from where she grew up. Every few ...

Bats aren’t just flying creatures of the night. See how the Mexican free-tailed bat and others can also walk and explore on ...

I don't know which is more scarce: belfries or people who know bats. Even biologists may be ignorant about the natural behavior of animals they see only during the stress of netting and capture, but a ...

Gliselle Marin joins the "Bat-a-thon," a group of 80-some bat researchers who converge on Belize each year to study these winged mammals. This scientist has a bat tat and earrings. She says there's a ...