STARKVILLE, Miss.—From some 8,000 miles away, Mississippi State scientist Manuel Ruiz-Aravena in the university’s Forest and Wildlife Research Center is studying flying foxes, or fruit bats, in ...

While the size of the Formosan flying foxes often scares people, they contribute to the spread of plant seeds, playing a key ...

A mayoral candidate says bats are just as important at bees to the Australia’s ecology and should be left alone.

A Queensland council will consider seeking government funding for a property buyback scheme as part of a new flying fox ...

Feb. 3 (UPI) --Animal rescuers in Australia responded to a hotel where a bat apparently attempted to take a drink from the swimming pool and became trapped in the water. Kate CJ Murphy, president of ...

An Australian woman fears she has a fatal virus after getting bitten on the head by a bat while on vacation. “I didn’t want to believe a bat had bitten me,” Sandi Galloway, told the Cairns Post of the ...

A family in Clarin, Misamis Occidental, rescued and cared for a bat that accidentally fell into their house. According to ...

A man in his 50s has been hospitalized in critical condition after contracting the Australian bat lyssavirus (ABLV) in New South Wales, Australia This is the first confirmed case of the virus in the ...

Residents bombarded by daily screeching, filth and a suffocating stench may finally get relief, with an Aussie council approving a plan that could trigger a dramatic government buyback of homes.