As twilight settles, the world’s most misunderstood mammals take to the skies. Bats, with their leathery wings and mysterious ...

Huabin Zhao from China’s Wuhan University and his colleagues discovered the bats’ weakened bitter taste when they found a much greater number of the vampire bat bitter taste receptor genes were ...

Sackler Gallery Bats and full moon Smithsonian American Art Museum Vampire Bats, from Lettered Creatures Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Bridges and Bats on Lattice Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian ...

Malayan flying foxes are primarily nocturnal, which explains why this bat hides from the sun. The bat in the video uses its wing to cover its face, which seems very vampiric in nature. However ...

A single bat can consume one third of its own bodyweight in insects every night. Vampire bats are the only mammals to feed entirely on blood and have tiny infra-red receptors in their nose leaf ...