A team of National Geographic Explorers is studying how these bats developed their architectural expertise—while cataloguing the various styles of tents they make.

Thousands of fruit bats migrate to Kasanka National Park, Zambia annually. Bats aid forest regeneration through seed dispersal and pollination. Kasanka's swamp forest is a key migration stop due to ...

A proposal to formally recognise the sacrifices of Jamaica’s security forces was put forward in the Senate on Friday, as Government Senator Marlon Morgan moved a motion calling for the establishment ...

Some Thai fruit bats carry a strong strain of the Nipah virus, but the bigger danger comes from infected people arriving from countries where there is an outbreak of the disease, health authorities ...

Reaching a 6-foot wingspan is the definitive physical requirement for the giant golden-crowned flying fox. Bats have inspired many pop culture references, most famously vampires. But did you know ...

In the early 2000s, José Juan Flores Martínez was studying for a bachelor’s degree in biology and working as a volunteer in a program designed to control invasive rodents on islands in the Gulf of ...

Bats have unique tendons in their feet that lock them into place when hanging upside down, so they don’t need to expend energy gripping. ©MilletStudio/Shutterstock ...

New videos reveal the surprising dynamics of bat-rat relationships—and suggest how human activity is fueling these interspecies conflicts. A rat attacks a bat as it flies by in this still image from a ...

Laura Torrent did not know that the tiny brown bat she caught in early 2024 would become a global milestone for biodiversity and conservation.She had suspected the small creature, caught during an ...