May the best bat win. The Bureau of Land Management is hosting its fifth annual bat beauty contest in celebration of bat week ...

Entrants come with names including Hoary Potter and Honey Bunches of Myotis, while others vying for victory are Robert Battinson, Bat Damon and Batlor Swift. Each October, the BLM hosts the event to ...

Today is both Halloween and the last day of Bat Week, which makes it the perfect day to admire beautiful bats like these four ...

For a millennial couple buying their first home, on an island in the Puget Sound, the cost of humanely resolving the bat ...

The victory marks the third year in a row that a bat from Oregon has taken first place in the contest. Last year, “William ShakespEAR,” a female Townsend’s big-eared bat from southern Oregon ...

White-nose syndrome is wiping out bats. A new voluntary plan has guidelines for conservation measures to protect bats' winter ...

This makes them exceptional among mammals, which typically rely on carbohydrates and fats for energy. Drs. Rossi and Welch ...

Internet-surfing Halloween decorators and wildlife collectors are fueling a growing trade in the preserved corpses of the ...

They often choose buildings because they can house roosts large enough to create warm microclimates for the juvenile bats to thrive in. Female bats will often return to these roosts year after ...

Busk is rooting for Hoary Potter in the hopes that an Oregon bat will win the beauty contest for a third time. Last year, ...

among others.The victory marks the third year in a row that a bat from Oregon has taken first place in the contest. Last year ...