May the best bat win. The Bureau of Land Management is hosting its fifth annual bat beauty contest in celebration of bat week, pitting some of the most popular winged creatures of the night ...

There are real vampires in the world of bats. Out of over 1,400 currently described bat species, three are known to feed on blood exclusively. To me, as a behavioral ecologist, who is interested ...

WHIDBEY ISLAND, WASH. — The first time Tom Riecken caught a big brown bat, there was screaming. Riecken and his wife, Mackenzie Powell, were pulling down walls in the attic of their new house ...

THE FUNGUS HAS BEEN KNOWN TO WIPE OUT MILLIONS OF BATS IN NORTH AMERICA. KCRA 3’S ANDRES VALLE SPOKE TO A LOCAL BAT ORGANIZATION ABOUT HOW THIS COULD IMPACT THE LOCAL ECOSYSTEM. REPORTER IT WAS ...

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has hosted the Bat Beauty Contest for the last two years, and Oregon bats have reigned supreme in both of the past competitions. The Beaver State hopes to bring ...

It’s time for the 2024 Bat Beauty Contest. If you’re unfamiliar, the Bat Beauty Contest is an annual online competition run by the US Bureau of Land Management (BLM), featuring photos taken of ...

Bat guano — a.k.a., droppings — preserves evidence of past fires, a recent analysis suggests, providing an “unconventional” record that could help scientists learn more about fire history ...

Two Oregon bats will participate in this year's Bat Beauty Contest in hopes of winning the top prize for the Beaver State for the third year in a row. The Bureau of Land Management is hosting its ...

Oct. 24 (UPI) --A bat escaped from a zoo in Germany by landing on a visiting woman and hiding in her clothes until she got home. Elina Öfele, 30, said she and her young son walked through the bat ...

Luckily, they're only imaginary … or are they? The common vampire bat, Desmodus rotundus, is the most abundant. At home in the tropical forests of Central and South America, these bats feed on ...

It’s time to cast your vote in an important and batty election–the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Bat Beauty Contest. In commemoration of Bat Week (October 24-31), the bureau will post ...

Karen Fang has been instrumental in shaping Bank of America’s industry-leading goal of mobilizing $1.5 trillion in sustainable finance capital by the end of the decade, of which $560 billion has ...