Fruit scraps destined for the compost bin can be given new life as stylish decor. This DIY turns the waste into rustic wall ...

Researchers at Cornell University took to the lab to confirm surprising findings from an earlier field study of bats and ...

What’s going on in their tiny pancreases? Envy the fruit bat. They can eat twice their body weight in sugary fruit without spiking blood sugar endangering their health. In fact, you’ll see a unicorn ...

But wildlife carers have said they are now seeing a heightened number of underweight bats being entangled and killed in plastic fruit tree netting. The netting is used by residents to keep animals off ...

“I've never seen a bat swim,” added a second person. “Can we please call it the bat stroke?” added another person on social media. “It’s a fruit bat. A flying fox. They have really cute faces, and ...

As the world marks International Bat Appreciation Day, conservation organisation Wild Africa is sounding the alarm on the urgent need to protect Nigeria’s rich but threatened bat population ...

A new study from Tel Aviv University reveals that the greater mouse-tailed bat (Rhinopoma microphyllum) uses its long tail as a natural tactile sensor to navigate backward in dark caves.

The project involved luring fruit bats into depleted areas by using synthetic smells to mimic their main food sources. Lays Parolin, an ecologist at the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná, told ...

Image via Wikimedia https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0 Fruit bats are mammals that can fly and are the only bats that eat fruit. The majority of fruit ...

This positive view of bats also has scientific backing. For example, many plants depend on fruit bats to pollinate them, or spread their seeds in their poo, including crops we eat such as lychees ...