Bat hibernation season begins in Vermont and northern New York. Experts break down the safe ways to send these flying mammals on their way ...

Jesika Reimer, a bat expert and consultant, has held in her hands little brown bats from the Northwest Territories to the Tanana River. Along with a few colleagues around Alaska, she is sharing new ...

Deep in a cool, damp cave in Vermont, tens of thousands of furry, chocolate brown creatures stir. The little brown bats, survivors of a deadly fungus that decimated their population, went into ...

Bats modify their red blood cells to become thicker and more rigid when they hibernate – and if we can figure out how, people might one day be able to copy the process for medical treatments or ...

This time of year, many animals are getting ready to hibernate or are already at it. Bats across Europe and North America, for example, started tucking themselves away a month or two ago to wait out ...

A new study identifies one of the secrets to big brown bats' exceptional longevity: hibernation. The most common bat in the United States, the big brown bat, boasts an unusually long lifespan of up to ...