Riecken and his wife, Mackenzie Powell, were pulling down walls in the attic of their new house after discovering it was home to thousands of local bats. There was dust in the air — a mixture of ...

Riecken and his wife, Mackenzie Powell, were pulling down walls in the attic of their new house after discovering it was home ...

Many species of bats use echolocation to avoid obstacles like tree branches and hunt small insects as they fly through the dark. But it turns out echolocation for bats is much more than just a ...

Entrants come with names including Hoary Potter and Honey Bunches of Myotis, while others vying for victory are Robert Battinson, Bat Damon and Batlor Swift. Each October, the BLM hosts the event ...

Echolocating bats have been found to possess an acoustic cognitive map of their home range, enabling them to navigate over kilometer-scale distances using echolocation alone. Echolocating bats ...

An Oregon bat was once again declared the Bureau of Land Management's most beautiful bat for the third year in a row during the annual Bat Beauty Contest. Hoary Potter, a hoary bat, took home the ...

With Halloween upon us, spooky symbols of the holiday abound — including bats. It just so happens to also be International Bat Week, which celebrates the role of bats in nature. Coincidence?

The week of Halloween is also Bat Week and is meant to illustrate the important role bats, often cast as scary creatures in classic cult horror movies, play in our ecosystems. “We know that bats ...

When you think about a beautiful animal, bats might not immediately come to mind. But for five years running, Thousands of people have cast their votes to decide which small toothy winged creature ...

PROVIDENCE – Checking for nesting bats isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when you think of all that needs to be done before fixing a bridge. But it’s a necessary step for any bridge ...