New research suggests bats maintain awareness of their past, present, and future positions to find their way around. More than a thousand species use echolocation, but after millions of years of ...

In The Star's annual year in review, the oddest stories of 2025 included a sinking Cybertruck, an egg shortage and rare ...

When a bat appears in a bedroom or living room, the real danger is often the bite you never felt. Rabies remains almost ...

Flying, fluffy, strangely beguiling, but also much maligned. While the coronavirus pandemic sweeping the world is thought to have originated in bats, the view of bats solely as carriers of disease ...

While the Philadelphia region isn’t home to the blood-sucking bats of Hollywood lore, bats have bitten or scratched nearly 500 people in Philadelphia in the last five years. Stephanie Stronsick knows ...

Bats "reinforce that option besides hiding & running -- you may have to fight." President Donald Trump has suggested arming teachers with guns to protect schools in the wake of a spate of deadly ...

Inside the gaping mouth of Mammoth Cave, hibernating bats sleep in permanent twilight, each huddled in its own limestone crevice. Every fall, these big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus) squeeze their ...

Throughout baseball diamonds across the country, teams are getting back into the swing of the season. Like their big-league counterparts, Little League and recreational players will sport leather ...

Well, not the kind of candy you buy in a sweets shop. Rather, they like fruit, which is rich in sugar. “We call it nature’s candy,” says Wei Gordon, a biologist at Menlo College. She was catching ...

For Bat Week this year, we rounded up five reasons to love and conserve these misunderstood mammals. Erin Malsbury From leaf-engineering to complex social circles, there’s more to bats than flying and ...

The New York Yankees may have started a trend with their innovative "torpedo" bats. After seeing the Yankees' impressive power surge this weekend, which included a franchise-record nine home runs on ...