PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced an Oregon bat won its ‘Bat Beauty Contest’ for the second year in a row. William ShakespEAR, a Townsend’s big-eared bat from Butte ...

Diseases like white-nose syndrome and climate change have caused mass population loss among bat species, and the consequences ...

(WGHP) — The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission is asking the public to comment on a plan to help conserve endangered bats. The Virginia big-eared bat is found in North Carolina mainly in Avery County ...

Is Oregon home to the most beautiful bats? We’re about to find out. Oregon’s bats are seeking a three-peat in the Bat Beauty Contest, an annual event run by the Bureau of Land Management that ...

The Virginia big-eared bat in North Carolina is primarily found in two counties, with only an estimated 600-800 individuals in the state. The North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission approved a ...

The Strange Big-eared Brown Bat, Histiotus alienus, was first described by science in 1916, by the British zoologist Oldfield Thomas. The description of the species was based on a single specimen ...

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 against ...

A March 29 Metro article and a March 30 KidsPost item about the naming of Virginia's state bat incorrectly referred to the Virginia big-eared bat as a rodent. It is a member of the order Chiroptera.

Scientists built a robot to help explain how a tropical bat spots insects perched on leaves using echolocation, a highly sophisticated behavior that requires precise, split-second decision making on ...

The Strange Big-eared Brown Bat, Histiotus alienus, was first described by science in 1916, by the British zoologist Oldfield Thomas. The description of the species was based on a single specimen ...