Scientists determine the color of ancient bats based on the shape of the melanin preserved in their fossils. If these bats had their own coloring book, you'd only get to use one or two crayons. Danny ...

Could bats' cave-dwelling nocturnal habits over eons enhanced their echolocation acoustic abilities, but also spurred their loss of vision? A new study led by Bruno Simões, Emma Teeling and colleagues ...

Melissa Ingala studies how the bacteria living in bat guts help them stay healthy Tess Joosse Most of biologist Melissa Ingala’s fieldwork takes place in Central and South America, where she works ...

Japanese baseball equipment maker SSK reveals a color-changing bat series that uses new paint to change bat color based on sunlight. Over a year in research and development, the UV Series ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fossils can do a good job of revealing key aspects of an extinct creature: its bones, teeth, claws, even soft tissue like fur, skin, feathers, organs and sometimes remains of ...