The Texas Rangers had one of their injured sluggers go through a live batting practice and he's heading to the minor leagues ...

Birds are the undisputed champions of epic travel -- but they are not the only long-haul fliers. A handful of bats are known to travel thousands of kilometers in continental migrations across North ...

Funding: This work was supported by the National Science Foundation (1751498 to NA). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the ...

Bats tend to have a bad rep with people (well, maybe outside the goth community, anyway). These creatures of the night are frequently accused of sucking blood, spreading rabies, and generally giving ...

Each night, a dark cloud of flying foxes, or fruit bats, moves through the skies of eastern Australia on their way to gorge on nectar and fruits. With a meter-wide (3.2-foot) wingspan, they transport ...

Soon you should be able to view masses of them taking off all over Central Texas at dusk. Fran Hutchins, director of the Bracken Cave Preserve, which is owned by Bat Conservation International, uses ...

Australia used to incinerate the large fruit bats, but research suggests they bring hundreds of millions of dollars in benefits to the country’s economy. By Anthony Ham The grey-headed flying fox is ...

Scientists have long aspired to vaccinate wild bats to prevent the circulation of deadly viruses. These mammals harbor rabies, Ebola, Nipah, Marburg, and coronaviruses that can cause severe disease ...

Bats are reservoirs for several zoonotic viruses, such as Ebola and coronaviruses. These pathogens can spread to humans through direct contact with the flying mammals or their bodily fluids, or ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Australia is famously a place with some of the world’s most dangerous and frightening ...

Lima, Peru — Bats have become the latest mammals susceptible to H5N1, the highly pathogenic avian influenza virus responsible for bird flu. In Peru, over a dozen vampire bats have been found carrying ...