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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Nitin J. Sanket, a professor at WPI, has developed small flying robots with his team that fit in the palm of a hand and use ...

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 ...