As darkness falls, a greater Japanese horseshoe bat gets ready to head out for the night’s hunt. As it takes flight, it uses ...

A rare bat has been captured for the first time since it was recorded audibly in the 1950s.

Julius Nziza still remembers the moment vividly. Just before dawn on a chilly January morning in 2019, he and his team gently extracted a tiny brown bat from a net purposely strung to catch the ...

The Jersey Bat Group held a capture/release session in St Peter’s Valley targeting the Greater Horseshoe Bat on the 24th May ...

A new study has shown how Japanese horseshoe bats (Rhinolophus nippon) handle noisy environments ...

If you've never seen a horseshoe bat, you're missing out. Their comically large ears are only rivaled for wackiest feature by their nose leaves, little flaps of skin that spread outward from their ...

For the first time in 40 years, researchers caught a Hill’s Horseshoe Bat, confirming that the bat population still clings to ...

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, ...

Horseshoe bats (Rhinolophus sp.) are known reservoirs of zoonotic coronaviruses (CoVs). Over the last twenty years, viruses thought to have originated from these bats have given rise to two severe ...

April 22 (UPI) --Scientists have named four new species of African leaf-nosed bats, close relatives of horseshoe bats, the bat group that hosts the virus that causes COVID-19. Horseshoe bats and fruit ...

For the first time in 40 years, researchers caught a Hill’s horseshoe bat, confirming that the bat population still clings to life in Rwanda’s Nyungwe National Park, a highly biodiverse area ...

Horseshoe bats are bizarre-looking animals with giant ears and elaborate flaps of skin on their noses that they use like satellite dishes. There are about a hundred different species of horseshoe bats ...