International Bat Week will be observed Oct. 24 to 31, 2025, including educational events and outings in Wisconsin.

Bat hibernation season begins in Vermont and northern New York. Experts break down the safe ways to send these flying mammals ...

Many species benefit from the habitats that beavers create by building dams—and not just aquatic life. A new study by the WSL ...

Halloween is an opportunity to celebrate that which is creepy, spooky, scary, and sometimes stranger than fiction. And for ...

Iowa law specifically states that wild bats are a protected nongame species. Wild bats are a part of a list of animals ...

A new species of tube-nosed bat has been discovered in the protected forests of the Philippines. Researchers from the (ROM), the Field Museum in Chicago, and Lawrence University in Wisconsin have ...

Bats are an important part of the ecosystem, eating pesky insects most humans hate. Sellers market bat homes, man-made roosts, to encourage them to stick around and eat insects. Tennessee is home to ...

Imagine listening to a recording of an orchestral performance, but because of a bad studio technician, the only instrument ...

New videos reveal the surprising dynamics of bat-rat relationships—and suggest how human activity is fueling these interspecies conflicts.

Russ Benedict from Central College holds a big brown bat during a bat population survey at Big Hollow Recreation Area in Sperry, Iowa, on July 12, 2023. The northern long-eared bat is a threatened ...

From cancer-resistant mole rats to 200-year-old whales, evolution has equipped long-lived species with unique biological ...