Eerie, green-glowing bats might sound like something out of a ghost story or Halloween movie, but new research shows it’s not ...

Six bat species glow bright green under UV light after they've died for over 100 years but it's a mystery why.

While the neon glow may surprise us, the reality for the animals experiencing it might be very different. Bats don’t have a black light to shine on one another under the dark of night, and the moon ...

A new study has found, for the first time ever, that there are some bats in the United States that glow in the dark when exposed to ultraviolet light.

Japanese baseball equipment maker SSK reveals a color-changing bat series that uses new paint to change bat color based on sunlight. Over a year in research and development, the UV Series ...

Scientists determine the color of ancient bats based on the shape of the melanin preserved in their fossils. If these bats had their own coloring book, you'd only get to use one or two crayons. Danny ...

Several bats glow bright green under ultraviolet light. The glow could reveal clues about evolution in these mysterious night ...

Did you know that Texas has the highest number of bat species in the United States and has been designated as the most "bat friendly" state? Of the 43 bat species currently known to occur in the U. S.

Turns out your glow-in-the-dark Halloween bat decorations are more biologically accurate than your skeleton costume.

Could bats' cave-dwelling nocturnal habits over eons enhanced their echolocation acoustic abilities, but also spurred their loss of vision? A new study led by Bruno Simões, Emma Teeling and colleagues ...

Melissa Ingala studies how the bacteria living in bat guts help them stay healthy Tess Joosse Most of biologist Melissa Ingala’s fieldwork takes place in Central and South America, where she works ...

Nancy Simmons was sitting in her office at the American Museum of Natural History two years ago when she got a startling text from a research expedition in Africa. It was a picture of a bat. But not ...