Bats have been acting erratically in a Utah national park, and a visitor was even bitten, wildlife officials said. Then park officials said one turned up with rabies right outside the visitor center ...

A roost of common vampire bats, Desmodus rotundus. Credit: Uwe Schmidt/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 4.0 Vampire bats have complex social networks, forming relationships with other bats that can vary on ...

BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) - There are over 30 species of bats in Texas, more than any other U.S. state, and while bats are an important part of the ecosystem, they are also known to carry deadly diseases ...

Some of the deadliest viral diseases that infect people are carried by bats, like Nipah virus (which has mortality rate of 40 to 70 percent in infected people), Ebola virus, and Marburg virus (which ...

ARCHES NATIONAL PARK, Utah — Visitors to one of Utah's most popular national parks need to watch out for bats as much as the beautiful scenery. Arches National Park announced Thursday that a bat found ...

Researchers who studied Peters' tent-making bats (Uroderma bilobatum) report that mothers prod their young with their forearms, perhaps encouraging them to fledge and wean. Baby birds learn to fly.

Vampire bats infected with the rabies virus aren't likely to act stereotypically 'rabid,' according to a new study -- instead, infected male bats tended to withdraw socially, scaling back on the ...

STORY: Walking through Ghana’s woodland, farmer Boamah Sonkaa treads carefully. Beneath him, ashanti plums lay scattered on the ground – many scarred with bite marks from bats. The saliva-tainted ...

Whether or not the deadly white-nose syndrome fungal disease hits some bats harder than others could depend on behavior and size, researchers report in the Jan. 29 Science Advances. The disease ...