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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

A bat that was part of the cave myotis species in Fort Huachuca, just west of Sierra Vista, tested positive for a fungus known as Pseudogymnoascus destructans (Pd) that can cause deadly white-nose ...

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 ...