NIPOMO, Calif. (AP) – In a sign that the holiday seasons really are blending together, a woman discovered a bat in her Christmas tree. Sheila Kearns bought her annual pine from Holloway’s Christmas ...

Bats who evolved to roost in trees suffer peak fatalities when it’s less windy during the late summer and in the fall. Using thermal cameras, researchers may have finally figured out what puts these ...

“You may already have a lot of plants that attract the insects that bats need to feed from, things like ox-eye daisies, hawthorns, dog roses, violas and some of our so-called weeds like bird’s-foot ...

But thousands of bats lived in the tree, and one toddler — a 2-year-old named Emile Ouamouno — may have contracted Ebola from playing there. Emile, who died in December 2013, was "patient zero," or ...

Mistaken identity Some species of bats may mistake wind turbines for tall trees, and follow seemingly familiar air flow patterns to their doom. US researchers used thermal and infra-red surveillance ...

Bats in tropical regions are fertilizing trees with their excretions. An international team of scientists recently discovered that seeds of a tropical tree species, which regularly hosts bats in large ...

Tree-cutting on a key stretch of a $1 billion hydropower project in western Maine is going to stop almost as soon as it started to protect the newly born young of a federally protected bat. The New ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — A bat hanging in the attic or in a room of the house can be an annoyance, and possibly dangerous, but there’s more to bats than that. The U.S. Department of Agriculture ...

URBANA, Ill. – Bats help keep forests growing. Without bats to hold their populations in check, insects that munch on tree seedlings go wild, doing three to nine times more damage than when bats are ...

Trees litter the picnic area at the northbound rest area on I-71 just south of the Jeremiah Morrow Bridge. Someone cut down a bunch of trees a few months ago at the north and southbound rest areas ...