This northern ghost bat (Diclidurus albus) was a special, rare find for the bat scientists gathered in Belize. “It was magical,” says evolutionary biologist Jasmin Camacho. It's late in the day on a ...

A team of National Geographic Explorers is studying how these bats developed their architectural expertise—while cataloguing ...

Flagstaff, Arizona — Scientists have long suspected that Mexican long-nosed bats migrate through southeastern Arizona, but without capturing and measuring the night-flying creatures, proof has been ...

Bats are some of the most highly specialized mammals to have ever evolved. This includes not only the evolution of active ...

Arizona is home to 28 different species of bats. Bats are an important part of the ecosystem. They pollinate plants and eat mosquitoes. It is illegal to kill or harm bats in Arizona, but they can be ...

In northern Italy, at least eight species of bat (Chiroptera) use the areas around pig farms. The lack of physical barriers ...