A bat with big ears, a horseshoe-shaped nose and a seemingly smushed face hidden behind flaps of skin that was recently discovered in Rwanda is a member of a "lost species" not seen in 40 years ...

In addition to preventing a Bourret’s horseshoe bat, Rhinolophus paradoxolophus, from winning beauty contests, convoluted face folding actually has an important job, Müller says.

He said: "The new grilles allow bats to enter but keep people out. They have only been in place since December, which is the ...

Evidence suggests the coronavirus originated from bats in Asia. But some researchers say that, here in North America, bats face the opposite risk — of being infected by human carriers.

The number of rare bats in a Devon town has "plummeted", a bat-observing group has said. Be Buckfastleigh, a community interest group, said the decline of greater horseshoe bats in the town was ...

A wrinkle-faced bat, Centurio senex, native to Latin America. The strangely intricate wrinkles and grooves around its nostrils help shape bat sonar, a new study found.

What a face! Scientists learn how bats channel their ... The researchers employed X-ray scans to generate three-dimensional computer models of the noseleaves of the rufous horseshoe bat, ...

Horseshoe bats are so-called due to a curious-looking horseshoe-shaped flap of skin on their face that actually helps in their navigation by echolocation in the dark.

Five baby-faced crooks wielding a baseball bat, a knife and pieces of wood mugged a straphanger before shoving him out of a Brooklyn subway car during his early-morning commute last week, cops said.

Tom Kitching, bat conservation officer for the VWT, said the site was the home of the first population of the greater horseshoe bat in Sussex, and was the only breeding roost.

Scientists rediscovered a "lost species" of bat that had not been seen in 40 years. The Hill's horseshoe bat, thought to be extinct, was found in 2019 in Rwanda.

The number of rare bats in a Devon town has "plummeted", a bat-observing group has said. Be Buckfastleigh, a community interest group, said the decline of greater horseshoe bats in the town was ...