I was comforted to hear that I wasn't the only one who'd been awakened in the dead of night by a bat flying around the house. “We’ve gotten tons of calls for bats this week,” said Nate Atwater, a ...

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Seeing a single bat flying around your living room can be terrifying; watching hundreds of thousands swarm from an abandoned mine can be mesmerizing. As spring weather returns, bat colonies are ...

One of the problems with bats, if you're a robotics expert, is that they have so many joints. That's what robotics researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Caltech quickly ...

A fossil found in Wyoming has apparently resolved a long-standing question about when bats gained their radar-like ability to navigate and locate airborne insects at night. The answer: after they ...

Many people begin to think about scary things as the Halloween season approaches and bats are often among the things that elicit fear and dread. Hollywood’s portrayal of bats are primarily negative ...

Editor's note: Additional advice on how to handle a bat encounter has been added to this story. I was comforted to hear that I wasn't the only one who'd been awakened in the dead of night by a bat ...