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

Have you ever walked through a garden on a warm night, unaware that tiny, winged mammals are silently working above your head ...

As soon as the first ever flowers unfurled from their buds in the early Cretaceous period, they were visited by pollinators.

For decades, Corey Tarwater and her research team have used mist nets by day to capture various species of tropical birds in ...

Consider the case of the nectar-drinking bat and the night-flowering vine whose lives intertwine in the lowland tropical forests of Central America. At La Selva Biological Station in northern ...

Though most species inhabit the tropical and semitropical areas of the world, they are still common in the United States and are most numerous in the Southwest. Some bats prefer to roost in barns, ...

Bats provide other services to humans too, such as pollinating plants and distributing seeds, in tropical and subtropical habitats throughout the world. Some of these plants are useful to people, ...

"This critical habitat designation for one of North America’s rarest bats, provides an umbrella of protection for all species living thereunder.” Today’s critical habitat designation is the result of ...

In March 2016, my team and I set off for northern Thailand with the task of filming a sequence about the rarely seen painted bat, (Kerivoula picta) for ‘Thailand: Earth’s Tropical Paradise.’ ...

Western cultures have generally regarded bats with superstition and fear; but in China, expressed in art and handicrafts, the bat has achieved respectability as a symbol of happiness and good luck.