Halloween is the time of vampires, bats, and other dark figures. But bloodsuckers aren’t just found in horror stories–they ...

In the heart of Belize, bat scientists descend upon the more than 3,000-year-old Mayan ruins of the Lamanai Archaeological ...

Sanket and his students found their answer in bats and the winged mammal's highly sophisticated ability to echolocate, or ...

Directed by German filmmaker Uli Edel ( Last Exit to Brooklyn) with a script by Karey Kirkpatrick ( Chicken Run) and Larry ...

Bats get a bad rap. They’re tied to Halloween decorations, vampire legends, and the occasional panicked reaction when one ...

Learn about vampire spiders and their love of human blood, which they're able to salvage from blood-carrying mosquitoes.

Theater in New York has felt spookier than usual this season: Beetlejuice has risen from the afterlife; a bat boy has just ...

With the Halloween season now in full swing, it's officially black cats' time to shine. Not only have they long been associated with all things spooky, but their dark coats lend them perfectly to a ...

Researchers race to protect West Coast bats from a fungus that has ravaged colonies elsewhere, and citizen scientists in Washington are filling in the gaps.

Vampire warrior Alucard (Jôji Nakata) joins forces with his mentor, Sir Integra Hellsing (Yoshiko Sakakibara), and his new ...

From their odd appendages to their unsavory hygiene, certain animals suffer an image problem. But their awkward attributes can be their biggest advantages. Found across every continent except ...

Scientists are learning more about the rarely seen spectral bat, Latin America’s “jaguar on the wing.” A spectral bat, the largest bat species in the Western Hemisphere, consumes a short-tailed fruit ...