In a months-long analysis of almost 15,000 sounds made by 22 Egyptian fruit bats, researchers say the noises contain a surprising level of information, including the identity of the talker, the ...

Nicole Ozmina and her family had to be airlifted out of Bat Cave community in Henderson County after the fatal floodwaters of Tropical Storm Helene.

Nicole Ozmina and her family had to be airlifted out of Bat Cave community in Henderson County after the fatal floodwaters of Tropical Storm Helene.

The Phoenix bat cave offers a summertime home for Mexican free-tailed bats and a nightly show for visitors.

Eating, mating, sleeping, fighting: Bats have plenty to argue about, and scientists have discovered the nocturnal creatures have a "language" they use to talk to each other, according to a new study.

Huge swarms of bats darken the skies as they stream out of their caves for the night. The sophisticated flyers avoid midair collisions by producing high-pitched echolocating calls, and interpreting ...

Spectators cup their ears to listen to the sound of bat wings as millions of Mexican free-tailed bats spiral out of Bracken Cave. Bat Conservation International, a conservation nonprofit that owns ...

Every night for thousands of years, bats have poured out of the Bracken Cave Reserve, near San Antonio, by the millions. But conservationists are worried that plans for a housing development ...

The Phoenix bat cave offers a summertime home for Mexican free-tailed bats and a nightly show for visitors.

We now know that the cacophony that we hear when entering a bat cave is far from just noise,” Yossi Yovel, the lead author of the study, told Popular Science in an e-mail.