If bats are in your yard, it means your ecosystem is healthy, and you can attract them with their favorite foods and ...

Nearby, a red-rumped agouti — a South American rodent that looks like a large, long-legged guinea pig — scuttled behind a tree trunk. A few feet away, an Arabian sand cat put its paw inside a log to ...

Setting up bird feeders in your garden is not just a spiritual way to serve birds, but also a strategy to deal with those pesky pests.

This summer has been a good year for viewing lightning bugs or fireflies because of several weather conditions. Here's what ...

In Vermont, researchers have investigated the types of creepy, crawly bugs that their avian predators consume and may have ...

Scientists in China's Yunnan province have discovered 20 new viruses in bats, including two closely related to the deadly Nipah and Hendra viruses. Th ...

Bats are all around, but due to their nocturnal nature, Baton Rouge residents do not see them often. Misconceptions about the flying mammals abound, despite their significance to ecological ...

Our early human ancestors likely shared caves and other dwellings that bats also inhabited. In those close quarters, these bat bug insects successfully jumped to humans as a new host over time.

Take a look at one of the dozens of activities that took place during the four-day event across Teller and El Paso counties.

Erdem Moralioglu looked to the Maria Sibylla Merian, the 17th century German entomologist and botanical illustrator, for a collection that was brimming with white guipure lace and colorful flowers ...

A bat that weighed less than 20p coin after getting stuck inside a museum has been nursed back to life and released into the wild.