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Amanda Lollar has been a little batty since she rescued an animal on a Texas sidewalk 13 years ago. "One bat altered the course of my life," she says, "one little, two-inch mammal." Lollar's quest to ...

A researcher holds a pallid bat (Antrozous pallidus) in El Cañon de Guadalupe in Baja California, Mexico. (Veronica Zamora-Gutierrez / UCL/University of Cambridge) If you’re looking for bats, ...

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Horror movies are a tennis match between the haunting absence of sound and ...