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. A series of rodent experiments showed ...

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 ...

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.

If your sugar water feeder is drained in the morning, a bat might have stopped by! Here's why bats would drink from a hummingbird feeder.

Some bat species can live cancer-free for up to 25 years, which is equivalent to 180 human years. How do they do it?

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. These closely related species—native to the ...

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 ...

Casper and Nectar are two of the biggest online mattress brands. They offer affordable, comfortable foam beds that sleepers love, but which is right for you?

When it comes to bats, there are superheroes … and then there are SUPERHEROES. Take Glossophaga mutica — a kind of nectar feeding bat the color of milk chocolate that’s found in the Americas.