When you picture a flower and a pollinator, the odds are you’re imagining a colorful, perfumed flower, and a honeybee.

Lesser Long-nosed Bat in flight at night feeding on Agave blossom . Getty. In the mid-1860s, a tiny parasitic aphid called phylloxera tore through the vineyards of France so mercilessly it ...

The Pallas' long-tongued bat has a neat trick at the tip of its tongue — tiny hairlike structures that fill with blood and stand straight out. This turns the tongue into a nectar-slurping mop at ...

The pallid bat, in contrast, is the only nectar feeder known in its mostly insect-eating family, which is the largest and most widespread family of bats. “A lot of pollinators come from lineages that ...

Perhaps nothing is more apropos in summer than learning about our sun. You can this weekend at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science. Or check out these other bright events. Got an event ...

A nectar-feeding bat uses a blood-powered hydraulic process to control hair-like structures on its tongue to efficiently slurp up the sugary liquid from flowers. Page 1 of 1 - 1 Total Items. 1.

Just think of a nectar-feeding bat flapping its wings at least twelve times a second, darting from flower to flower and slurping up glucose and other sugars all night long. That’s a lot of cardio.

Three types of nectar-feeding bats migrate to the southwestern U.S. If you’re located in the states of California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, you might find a bat at your hummingbird feeder.

It's the 16th Bat-a-thon in Belize. Researchers think the flying mammals can teach us about warding off pathogens and managing diabetes. They trap bats in nets, draw blood ... but no bats are harmed.

Fruit, nectar, bugs and blood: How bat teeth and jaws evolved for a diverse dinnertime. They don't know it, but Darwin's finches changed the world.

Surprisingly, the researchers also found that it only takes two hits for normal bat cells to become malignant, meaning bats aren’t naturally resistant to cancer—they just have “robust tumor ...

Bats are able to consume an extraordinary amount of sugar with no ill effects. Scientists are trying to learn more about how bats do it — and whether humans can learn from their sugar response.