And still more eat insects — a common brown bat can consume a thousand mosquitos an hour! You definitely want those around ...

Human babies are not the only babblers, said a study published Thursday. Some bats are also very talkative in their infancy and even make sounds that recall the googoo-gagas of our own tots.

This short animation gives an overview of the fruit bat. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 27 March 2015, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Y. Prat at Tel Aviv ...

Bats are, essentially ... revealed that the rate of internal infant mortality — babies who have died by causes other than accidents or homicides — increased by nearly 8 percent in counties ...