Bats have fascinated Joseph Curti since he first encountered them in seventh grade. Now, as a postdoctoral fellow for the ...

In North America, five families of moths have caterpillars that can deliver painful stings. Find out which ones in this article.

Visitors can now meet Juniper, John Ball Zoo’s three-month-old snow leopard cub, the zoo announced Thursday. This is the ...

On a speck of land in the Indian Ocean, one of the world's most ambitious wars is being waged against feral cats. But not everyone is celebrating.

For Missouri residents, Marvel Cave represents a treasure in your own backyard worthy of repeated visits. For travelers, it offers an experience you simply cannot find in many other locations—a ...

New species of bat, Pipistrellus etula, on Bioko Island, bringing the total number of known species worldwide to 1,500.

New videos reveal the surprising dynamics of bat-rat relationships—and suggest how human activity is fueling these ...

José G. Martínez-Fonseca has spent years documenting the hidden beauty of bats, and his work shows just how misunderstood ...

A fter 55 years missing from the Karakum Desert, it was suspected that the Turkestan long-eared bat ( Plecotus turkmenicus) had likely gone extinct or become very rare. Nobody had seen the species ...

Six new species of tube-nosed bats have been discovered inside the forests of the Philippines—just in time for Halloween.

If you watch your furry friend, or really, any animal, at any given moment, they’ll either look silly, adorable, or downright ...

Just in time for Halloween, scientists have discovered six new species of bats in the forests of the Philippines. The ...