Australia used to incinerate the large fruit bats, but research suggests they bring hundreds of millions of dollars in ...

Bats have inspired many pop culture references, most famously vampires. But did you know there is a species of bat that looks eerily similar to these legendary creatures? The giant golden-crowned ...

Flying foxes are a type of bat within the Chiroptera order of mammals. There are several different species and, unfortunately, two native Australian species have suffered sudden and dramatic losses ...

A bat pup is hand-fed mashed bananas by a zookeeper after losing its mother. January 2021 (Oregon Zoo){ } PORTLAND, Ore. — The Oregon Zoo has welcomed three Rodrigues flying fox bat pups into its ...

Thousands of flying foxes are reported to have died in the heat wave, where temperatures exceeded 100°F A record-breaking number of flying foxes died during Australia's weekend heat wave, according to ...

A platypus playing in the river, tree kangaroos hiding above and bats screeching overhead… this isn’t the Duke gardens! 10,185 miles away, three Duke students find themselves in Yungaburra, Australia.

In a matter of hours, a searing January heatwave turned a thriving flying fox camp into a scene of mass death, with more than four in five animals in one colony succumbing as temperatures climbed ...