A study published in Science this spring estimated that bats provide more than $3.7 billion in pest-control services to U.S. agriculture every year. With G. destructans reaching farther each winter, ...

An Australian man has died from an "extremely rare" rabies-like infection transmitted by a bat bite, health officials said Thursday. The man in his 50s was bitten by a bat carrying Australian bat ...

Researchers in Bangladesh have identified a bat-borne virus, Pteropine orthoreovirus, in patients who were initially suspected of having Nipah virus but tested negative. All had recently consumed raw ...

Nothing can set your pulse racing like mysterious noises coming from somewhere in your home's rafters. Nothing, that is, except coming face to face with a bat. But sometimes even noises and random ...

Ecologist and neurobiologist Yovel shares the fruits of his decades of field and lab research on bats in this standout work of popular science. The almost 1,500 species of bats around the world, he ...

FENTRESS, Texas (KXAN) — Troy Swift counted 397 bats swarming out of a tall home near San Marcos one evening. It was the most the pecan farmer had seen since the home had been built several years ...