Hair-thin muscles embedded in the skin of their wings allow bats like this Jamaican fruit bat to change the stiffness and curvature of their wings at different points of the wing stroke. That ...

VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. – Bats are landing on Volusia County’s popular Wings of the West mural trail this weekend. On Saturday, artist Erica Group will unveil her latest mural at the D Ranch Preserve in ...

To exploit a rich food resource that remains largely inaccessible to most predators, Europe’s largest bat captures, kills, and consumes nocturnally migrating birds in flight high above the ground, ...

The discovery of bird DNA in bat poo has suggested that a handful of bat species are able to hunt migrating birds. Researchers have now obtained direct evidence that some bats do hunt birds — and even ...

Seasonal decor depicts a bat as a villainous creature with glowering red eyes and ragged wings. As is so often the case, the fantasy is just that: a myth. “I just want people to lose their fear.