In that tale the Maya hero twins are placed inside a “bat house”—a cave filled with death bats, called Camazotz by the Maya. The bats had snouts like blades, which they used to kill people ...

The finding could help us understand how animals and humans navigate social relationships, potentially leading to new ...

Crocodiles are hardy creatures, yet even these tenacious reptiles surprised researchers after a group was found in a dark ...

A hundred steps away from the cave, I’d just taken off my ... Just for a moment, the room was filled with the sound of a thousand bats taking flight. I closed my eyes tight, just in case.

Trespassers to central Queensland caves are frightening endangered ghost bats into abandoning their offspring, reducing the already shrinking population. Mount Etna, north of Rockhampton ...

Instead, it hitches rides on bats. First discovered in the Tan Phu cave—part of a lava-tube cave system in Vietnam—these creatures belong to a rare group of cockroaches that have carved a ...

Longleat’s popular Bat Cave is reopening on February 15, welcoming back a colony of 42 Egyptian fruit bats to the Wiltshire estate. The return of the bats has sent the fruit bill soaring, with their ...

Beginning in 2011, Thai researchers made repeated treks every year to remote caves and forests inhabited by millions of bats, including species known to carry diseases deadly to humans.