An old photo of a human-sized bat in the Philippines has resurfaced on Twitter, puzzling social media users. On June 24, a Twitter user with the handle @AlexJoestar622 shared an image of a giant ...

By Mongabay.com Researchers have recently described six new-to-science species of tube-nosed bats from the Philippines, named ...

A viral photo of a massive bat in the Philippines recently resurfaced, sparking renewed interest online. While the image isn't fake, it's an optical illusion created using forced perspective. The bat ...

As Halloween decorations fill neighborhoods across North America, scientists have unwrapped a real-life natural mystery: six ...

Thankfully, this specific breed of bat (officially known as the giant golden-crowned flying fox) is only found in the Philippines. Still, the dread these pictures induce knows no borders! What makes ...

This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not ...

Six new species of tube-nosed bats have been discovered inside the forests of the Philippines—just in time for Halloween.

Every spring, billions of migratory songbirds in Europe fly north to their breeding grounds. Most of these birds fly at night when no predators are around — or so the experts thought. But researchers ...

“These bats are notoriously elusive, so the tube-nosed bat collection this study examined was cobbled together over many ...