As twilight settles, the world’s most misunderstood mammals take to the skies. Bats, with their leathery wings and mysterious ...

Imagine being able to fly through pitch-black caves, dart between tree branches at midnight, and snatch a tiny insect out of ...

In the late 1990s, an Ottawa man changed bat technology with the creation of maple bats. Soon, almost every major leaguer ...

“I have no thoughts,” Frelick said when asked about the chatter surrounding the new-fangled bat. “You chop down a tree, you should be able to hit with it.” ...

The incoming information is processed fast and continually, allowing bats to adjust their course in mid-flight as they streak through the air after a mosquito or race among flowering trees.

Perhaps the most famous bat in history was Shoeless Joe Jackson's "Black Betsy," a massive 36-inch, 39-ounce stick Jackson used his entire career. It was made out of a hickory tree from South ...

Some bats prefer to roost in barns, attics, caves or abandoned mines, those shelters providing safety from predators, protection from fluctuations in weather, and seclusion for rearing the young.

Little red flying foxes are tree-dwelling bats. In daytime they can be seen roosting in giant camps that may include as many as a million individuals. The bats are indeed efficient fliers ...

Acres of trees will be felled and shaped to feed the thirst for this new style of bats. Last weekend, one bat salesman asked his boss, "What the heck have we done?" Jared Smith, CEO of bat-maker ...

Some might travel as far as 30 miles in one night, foraging for fruits such as figs and pollinating trees as they go. Gray-headed flying foxes are actually the largest native bat species in ...