We think we know the difference between these two flying creatures, but what are the actual anatomical differences between bats and birds?

Disorder brings more life to the forest: Birds and bats react to this in different ways. This is shown by a new study from ...

Bats are incredibly diverse animals: They can climb onto other animals to drink their blood, pluck insects from leaves or hover to drink nectar from tropical flowers, all of which require distinctive ...

The pekapeka-tou-roa, New Zealand’s long-tailed bat, is special for many reasons. Bats are the island nation’s only native land mammal and the pekapeka-tou-roa is just one of two surviving species in ...

New Zealand has named the pekapeka-tou-roa, or long-tailed bat, as their Bird of the Year, despite the fact that bats are not birds. Some have criticized the call as a publicity stunt to recuperate ...

After nearly 25 years of research, the mystery has finally been solved: Europe's largest bat doesn't just eat small birds—it hunts and captures them more than a kilometer above the ground. And it eats ...

Nearly every species of bats are nocturnal, sleeping during the day in secluded roosts, but it also seems that they're not ...

A: There are numerous suggestions on the internet, but one I like is: mass.gov/guides/bat-houses. The state Division of Fisheries and Wildlife offers a few good ...

Birds and bats accounted for 54% of total cacao tree productivity over a one year period in northern Peru’s agroforestry systems. The economic benefits of bird and bat contributions in the study area ...

At least some of that concern is justified. In the mid-1980s, people reported seeing piles of dead raptors at Altamont Pass Wind Resource Area near San Francisco, one of the nation’s first wind farms.