The only mammals that can maintain sustained flight, a fruit bat can give you the heebie-jeebies while flapping close past ...

A fruit bat found itself in an awkward situation in the Australian state of Queensland: the animal had become entangled in a barbed wire fence. A rescuer very carefully freed the bat. The Worst ...

The researchers: “For the first time, we have shown that bats are able to navigate great distances in open areas with their eyes closed, using only echolocation; they even create a mental ...

The animals, also known as spectacled fruit bats, were unable to survive in temperatures ... decline for a species that isn't under a great deal of pressure outside of these weather events ...