It is generally believed that, for millions of years, bats and the insects they hunt at night have adapted to each other in an evolutionary arms race to become better at finding or avoiding each other ...

Ask a biologist why predators don't exterminate all their prey, part of the answer often is that there is an ongoing arms race between predators and prey, with both parties continuously evolving new ...

In many cultures, extending back millennia, bats have been associated with the devil, witchcraft and evil-doers. Their nocturnal activities have spurned countless myths about malevolent behavior: ...

As dusk settles and the last birds vanish into trees, something else begins to stir. Dark shapes dart and zigzag across the sky, sometimes disappearing only to return seconds later. If you notice this ...

Unfounded claims that bats get stuck in people’s hair, that all bats have rabies, and Hollywood’s influence (for example, the concept of blood-sucking vampires) often put bats in a negative light. The ...

Lots of us aren’t very keen on bats. But the more we find out about them, the more amazing they turn out to be ...

In a new study, bats lap up vaccine-laced saline or chow down on vaccine-carrying mosquitoes. Will that have any impact on ...

Bats such as the common noctule consume pest insects over intensively managed arable land and thereby support sustainable agriculture. A new study led by scientists from the Leibniz Institute for Zoo ...