A well-placed bat box can support local wildlife while helping reduce the number of mosquitoes buzzing around your backyard.

On opening weekend, some New York Yankees stepped to the plate with bats that looked slightly off, thick in an unusual place, ...

You’ve probably heard the saying “as blind as a bat,” right? It’s been repeated for centuries, but it couldn’t be further from the truth. Most bats can see just fine—and some even see better than we ...

"As blind as a bat" is a lament you'll often hear in the presence of lost pairs of glasses, boneheaded referees, and anyone perceived as mentally oblivious, but if you call someone blind as a bat, you ...

Bats tend to have a bad rep with people (well, maybe outside the goth community, anyway). These creatures of the night are frequently accused of sucking blood, spreading rabies, and generally giving ...

Welcome to Snyder's Soapbox! Here, I pontificate about matters related to Major League Baseball on a weekly basis. Some of the topics will be pressing matters, some might seem insignificant in the ...

Through their association with vampires, general spookiness, and fighting crime in comic books, bats are often misunderstood and even feared—at least by those who cross Nosferatu and Batman. But ...

Most bats use echolocation to navigate and hunt, but some use their ears for another trick: eavesdropping. Hunt like a bat! How baby bats learn to eavesdrop on their next meal There are over 1400 ...

Historically, bat migration has been a bit of a black box. While scientists have learned lots about how birds migrate, the handful of bat species that make long-distance journeys have been tougher to ...