There are over 1,400 bat species in the world, and they are almost exclusively nocturnal. Bats have traditionally been classified as Microchiroptera, or microbats, and Megachiroptera, or megabats.

STARKVILLE, Miss.—From some 8,000 miles away, Mississippi State scientist Manuel Ruiz-Aravena in the university’s Forest and Wildlife Research Center is studying flying foxes, or fruit bats, in ...

A group of 18 giant bats took the plane from Tampa to the Alamo City, where the San Antonio Zoo is welcoming the endangered species for the first time since the 1980s. The Malayan flying foxes, as ...

Feb. 3 (UPI) --Animal rescuers in Australia responded to a hotel where a bat apparently attempted to take a drink from the swimming pool and became trapped in the water. Kate CJ Murphy, president of ...

Many animals have unique ways they have evolved to adapt to their environment. For a flying fox, which is technically a kind of bat, that means using water mid-flight to cool off. Take a look: ...

Ten years of data from Australia’s comprehensive national flying-fox monitoring program reveals the grey-headed flying fox (fruit bat) population is stable. It’s good news for this threatened species.

Flying foxes returned to Eurobodalla weeks ahead of their usual schedule this year.Eurobodalla Council's natural resources ...

A Queensland council has been forced to consider a housing buyback scheme for residents living amid a colony of bats that ...

SAN ANTONIO – The San Antonio Zoo is welcoming the return of flying foxes — an endangered species that hasn’t been at the zoo since the 1980s. A news release states a group of flying foxes were ...