Light up the Jurassic bat-signal, Commissioner Gordon. Researchers have discovered the fossil of a new “bat–winged” dinosaur in northeast China. Dubbed Ambopteryx longibrachium, the blue jay-sized ...

Only two dinosaur species are known to have had wings made out of stretched skin, like bats. But unlike bats, these dinos were capable of only limited gliding between trees, a new anatomical analysis ...

A Madagascar sucker-footed bat (Myzopoda aurita). In the tropical forests of Madagascar, there lives a very peculiar kind of bat. While most bats roost by hanging upside-down from cave ceilings or ...

Wildlife rangers in Belize saw an oddly colored creature fall from a tree and later identified it as a Spix’s disc-winged bat with leucism. Photo from Getty Images / iStockphoto In a rainforest of ...

At least 65 million years of evolution separate humans and greater sac-winged bats, but these two mammals share a key feature of learning how to speak: babbling. “This is a hugely important step ...