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 ...

Australian health officials are urging residents to avoid handling bats after a man who was bit months ago reportedly died ...

A northern NSW man has become the fourth person to die of lyssavirus in Australia. The disease is incredibly rare but extremely dangerous. So what are the symptoms, how is it treated and how can you ...

Did you know the Rodrigues fruit bat (a.k.a. "flying fox") has a wingspan of three feet? Arnold Schwarzenegger: Net zero is bogus Dodgers offer clear stance to questions on Trump visit, LA ...

Around 5,000 fruit bats were spotted by the Community Environment and Natural Resources Office (CENRO) of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources-SOCCSKSARGEN (DENR-12) during its ...

The world's largest bat species play vital roles in their ecosystems, from seed dispersal to prey control. These megabats, including the Golden-crowned Flying Fox and the Hammer-headed Bat ...

Hundreds of Indian flying foxes (Pteropus medius formerly Pteropus giganteus), large fruit-eating bats, dropped dead in droves in the northern states of India due to intense heatwaves. In ...

As fruit bats die en masse in parts of India, experts stress the need for research as they fear the loss of these bats could have huge ecological consequences.

Hammer-headed bats are named after the males' oversized boxy heads, which evolved to amplify and project the honking sounds they produce to impress females during courtship displays.

Like many fruit bats, the Little Mariana species had a small, fox-like face and a brown, furry body, giving rise to its alternative name, the Mariana – or Guam – flying fox.

Watch the incredible moment an ultra-rare fruit bat is filmed giving birth upside down at a British zoo for the first time ever. The critically endangered Livingstone's fruit bat, Selene, can be ...

The Livingstone's fruit bat is the first to be born at the zoo, near Morpeth, and is the first of its kind to be born in the UK for at least five years.