Bats are to receive star treatment at next year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show, with a show garden demonstrating how easy it is to grow plants that support these night-loving mammals.Designed by Melanie ...

Bats "reinforce that option besides hiding & running -- you may have to fight." President Donald Trump has suggested arming teachers with guns to protect schools in the wake of a spate of deadly ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. To avoid being poisoned by their own prey, some animals must rely on ...

By Astrid Arellano In the early 2000s, José Juan Flores Martínez was studying for a bachelor’s degree in biology and working ...

For Bat Week this year, we rounded up five reasons to love and conserve these misunderstood mammals. Erin Malsbury From leaf-engineering to complex social circles, there’s more to bats than flying and ...

Need more bats? Learn about all the amazing things bats can do in our radio interview with Sharon Swartz and Cynthia Moss, and check out a spotlight on batty science. You’d think that bats and birds ...

While the Philadelphia region isn’t home to the blood-sucking bats of Hollywood lore, bats have bitten or scratched nearly 500 people in Philadelphia in the last five years. Stephanie Stronsick knows ...

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Bats eat a lot of bugs -- up to two-thirds of their body weight in insects daily for some species. There's an unexpected side effect of all that insect eating, though. Bat scat is described as ...

There’s long been a debate in baseball circles about the respective benefits and drawbacks of using wood bats versus metal bats. However, there are relatively few scientific studies on the topic that ...

Vampire bats can quaff the finest A-positive blood vintage, thanks to a little help from their digestive friends. In a new study, researchers analyzed the DNA and microbiome of three species of ...

In The Star's annual year in review, the oddest stories of 2025 included a sinking Cybertruck, an egg shortage and rare ...