While much of the world sleeps, vampire bats emerge from dark caves, mines, tree hollows and abandoned buildings in Mexico and Central and South America. They glide stealthily through the night air as ...

Bats are a natural to associate with Halloween. After all, vampires rank second to witches in their association with all things eerie. But as with all the plants and animals associated with this scary ...

José G. Martínez-Fonseca has spent years documenting the hidden beauty of bats, and his work shows just how misunderstood ...

Q. Halloween brings forth some menacing creatures. The scariest to me is Dracula when he is a blood-sucking bat turning people into vampires. It got me wondering: Are vampire bats real? If so, have ...

Unfounded claims that bats get stuck in people’s hair, that all bats have rabies, and Hollywood’s influence (for example, the concept of blood-sucking vampires) often put bats in a negative light. The ...