Researchers describe a new bat species found in Sri Lanka and South India and name it Miniopterus phillipsi in honor of British naturalist W.W.A. Phillips. Sri Lanka is home to 31 species of bats, but ...

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 ...

Just in time for Halloween, six new bat species have been discovered by researchers from the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), Field Museum in Chicago, and Lawrence University in Wisconsin. This nocturnal – ...

There must be a concerted effort by local farmers, tequila producers, and conservation scientists. Experts discover powerful ...

The bat skeletons unearthed in southwest Wyoming are the oldest ever found, and their discovery has sparked a reshuffle in the bat family tree. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

A landmark wildlife survey in Sri Lanka’s central highlands has uncovered two rare free-tailed bat species, ..

A painted woolly bat, or Kerivoula picta, roosts under a leaf in Indonesia. Unlike its cave-dwelling cousins, this species does not live in groups, but as individuals or pairs in fields and forests in ...

Six new bat species were recently discovered in the Philippines by a team of researchers from Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), the Field Museum in Chicago, and Lawrence University in Wisconsin.

For more than two decades, researchers knew of just a single, male individual of the greater mouse-eared bat that would repeatedly hibernate in an unused railway tunnel in Sussex, U.K. This male bat ...