Professor Yossi Yovel, author of 'The Genius Bat,' wants to show that the nocturnal creatures are not, in fact, the stuff of ...

Animal names often sound precise, but many are the result of early guesswork that never got corrected. Explorers, naturalists ...

The San Francisco Giants have announced their non-roster invitees to this year’s Spring Training in Arizona and there’s just ...

A tropical-themed visitor attraction could be created in a public park in Leeds, under new plans. The proposal would see a ...

A tropical-themed visitor attraction could be created in a public park if plans are agreed with the council.

Can you feel it? Okay, sure, so much of the East Coast remains buried under snow and ice, but hey: February is right around ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists from diverse universities conducted controlled experiments to determine how big-eared bats detect insects sitting on ...

Fruit bats are mammals that can fly and are the only bats that eat fruit. The majority of fruit bats reside in Southeast Asia and Africa. Their scientific name is “Pteropodidae,” but they are also ...

Bats have unique tendons in their feet that lock them into place when hanging upside down, so they don’t need to expend energy gripping. ©MilletStudio/Shutterstock ...

Sitting in his L.A. home earlier this year, Eric D. Johnson, the leader of shapeshifting indie-rock band Fruit Bats, kicked around the idea of making a short EP that would serve as a “mid-term project ...

On May 3, 2018, a 26-year-old man living in the town of Perambra in the Indian state of Kerala went to the hospital complaining of fever and body aches. Muhammad Sabith’s symptoms did not seem serious ...