A new study sheds light on why North America's bats are dying in large numbers at wind energy facilities. Using a novel chemical tracking method, University of Florida researchers discovered that bats ...

The bats use the way the sun's light is scattered in the atmosphere at sunset to calibrate their internal magnetic compass, which helps them to fly in the right direction, a new study has shown.

Humans aren’t the only ones who follow traffic rules. Bats do it too, researchers report March 26 in PLOS Computational Biology. Scientists eavesdropped on echolocating Daubenton’s bats (Myotis ...

Bracken Cave, a collapsed sinkhole on the side of a lush limestone hill in southern Texas, is home not only to the world’s largest known bat colony but also to one of the largest concentrations of any ...