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

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

Force measurements and wingbeat segmentation. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Sept. 26, 2018, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by R. Ingersoll at ...

Nectar Classic Memory Foam score: 8.1; Casper One score: 6.4; ... I think the majority of sleepers will likely find the Casper One to be a bit more comfortable right off the bat.

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.