This Artibeus fruit bat feasts on sugary fruit every night but these winged mammals don’t suffer from diabetes or other metabolic problems as humans might if we were to gorge on sugar. Updated August ...

With Halloween upon us, spooky symbols of the holiday abound — including bats. It just so happens to also be International Bat Week, which celebrates the role of bats in nature. Coincidence? Perhaps ...

Bats are an important part of the ecosystem, eating pesky insects most humans hate. Sellers market bat homes, man-made roosts, to encourage them to stick around and eat insects. Tennessee is home to ...

Bats are able to consume an extraordinary amount of sugar with no ill effects. Scientists are trying to learn more about how bats do it — and... Some bats eat a ton of sugar and have no health woes.