But that hasn’t stopped bats from making their homes in cities. For instance, 18 of Germany’s 25 bat species live in Berlin, which is also made up of 20 percent forest. “Trees provide a lot ...

A team of researchers captured 31 wild adult female vampire bats from inside a hollow tree in Belize and injected half of them with an immune-challenging substance to simulate sickness ...

To test if the trees profit from the presence of bats by incorporating nutrients from bat excreta into their seeds, the researchers analysed a specific form of nitrogen, the stable isotope 15N.

Texas is the “battiest” state, home to 32 of the country’s 47 bat species — and in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, nowhere may prove that better than the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. A recent acoustic ...

Over 5,000 bats suddenly dropped dead and fell from the trees in an Australian forest. The flying foxes died after extreme temperatures that soared to 44 degrees when a heatwave swept over Casino ...

After a powerful wind storm struck Iowa in August, the city of Mount Vernon was left covered in fallen trees and other debris ... carved more than 200 baseball bats, which he sold to raise ...

Fluttering overhead at night, quiet except for their squeaks, bats can be easily overlooked, but these small mammals play a big role in the ecosystem. Bats are also at risk. Illinois is home to 13 ...

Genetic information has enabled scientists to construct a family tree for bats, tracing their origins to a period of global warming 50 million years ago, when plants and insects flourished.

GAYLORD, MI – The illustrious Gaylord Ice Tree, a winter icon, is still going strong nearly two weeks into spring. The “tree” is created by piping water through a metal scaffolding.

It germinated, grew and sank thick roots into the earth. An unlovely tree, it became the abode of bugs, bats and lichens. Tattered kites caught in its branches. And 129 years of history unfolded ...

A small, fuzzy animal is scurrying over tree roots and through leaf litter ... or pekapeka-tou-poto, to be precise. Bats don’t have to learn the speed of sound – they’re born knowing ...

Scientists have been left “completely astonished” after finding the perfectly preserved remains of dead conjoined twin bats under a tree in Brazil, reports The Sun. It is only the third ...