For a millennial couple buying their first home, on an island in the Puget Sound, the cost of humanely resolving the bat ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Lubee Bat Conservancy will feature new events at its 20th Annual Florida Bat Festival, including seven new baby bats to greet for the first time, along with its classic attractions like 140 ...

It is time this ship went in a different direction.” M. J. Pettit reveals the inspiration behind For sale: baby shoes, worn way too often. This story began with the title. It obviously riffs on ...

May the best bat win. The Bureau of Land Management is hosting its fifth annual bat beauty contest in celebration of bat week, pitting some of the most popular winged creatures of the night ...

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?