This little bat is spending the winter months in the historic mining shafts of Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula. The silver-haired bat is one of the most common bats in forested areas of America. It’s ...

A rare bat that has been seen in Colorado only three times appeared in Wellington recently, leading researchers to suspect the species’ habitat might be expanding westward. The evening bat, a common ...

If confirmed through DNA testing, this will be only the fourth time an evening bat has been found in Colorado. Experts believe unseasonably warm winter weather may have caused the bat to end up in the ...

The first known occurrence of an evening bat was recorded in northern Colorado this month, something that is “not concerning but definitely interesting” to Pitkin County, according to the county’s ...

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A 20-something “person of interest” in the Brown University mass shooting was nabbed at a local hotel before dawn Sunday — as witnesses revealed he shouted something before opening fire. Detectives ...

Authorities on Monday had renewed a manhunt for the gunman who killed two students and injured seven more at Brown University over the weekend, after releasing a man who had been held on Sunday as a ...

Highlands, North Carolina — In the North Carolina town of Highlands, about 20 feet below ground in a goldmine from the 1800s, there is a race against time to save a bat population whose numbers are ...

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New videos reveal the surprising dynamics of bat-rat relationships—and suggest how human activity is fueling these interspecies conflicts. A rat attacks a bat as it flies by in this still image from a ...

Rats have gotten a bad reputation over the years for being dirty, garbage-eating carriers of disease. But these ubiquitous rodents are also clever and capable of learning complex tasks, even using ...