Bats hold some of the most jaw-dropping records in the entire animal kingdom, from the world's smallest mammal to creatures ...

Lane County Public Health (LCPH) on Monday announced laboratory confirmation from the Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory at ...

A bat found in Lane County tested positive for rabies, and it's the third one so far this year, Lane County Public Health ...

Last fall, scientists reported the first known recordings of greater noctule bats hunting and feasting on songbirds during ...

Weighing less than a penny and small enough to be mistaken for a flying insect, Kitti's hog-nosed bat breaks nearly every ...

Carrie Yeager, environmental health director with Butler County General Health District, holds a fake bat Wednesday, July 8, ...

A bat has tested positive for rabies in Marion County, prompting county health officials to urge residents to take ...

While bats are often associated with darkness, vampires, death and witchcraft, some bats are incredibly important to the ecosystem. Not only does their dung, known as guano, provide nutrients for ...

Two headlines regarding rabies caught my attention recently. One was a story from Canada about an 11-year-old boy who ...

Bats are neither creepy nor spooky—not even the three species of vampire bats. (With a three-foot vertical leap, the common vampire bat is, however, supernaturally athletic.) And contrary to common ...

You can probably picture a vampire: Pale, sharply fanged undead sucker of blood, deterred only by sunlight, religious paraphernalia and garlic. They're gnarly ...