A Western Australian gold miner has been hit with a fine of more than $100,000 for failing to protect a vulnerable bat ...

A Nigerian biologist stumbled upon a bat so rare it had vanished from scientific records for decades, hidden inside a West ...

Scientists have for the first time recorded the presence of the great Himalayan leaf-nosed bat (Hipposideros armiger) in the country, adding to the known range of this widespread Asian insectivore.

In a new study, paleontologists describe the oldest-known leaf-nosed bat fossils, which were found along the banks of the Panama Canal. They're also the oldest bat fossils from Central America, ...

Meet Hipposideros griffini, who’s also known as Griffin’s leaf-nosed bat of Vietnam. This newly discovered species possesses a unique configuration of leaf-like protrusions on its schnoz that may help ...

A University of Melbourne researcher has spotted a rare evolutionary phenomenon happening rapidly in real time in bats living in the Solomon Islands. Dr Tyrone Lavery reports in a paper published in ...

The Riversleigh Leaf-nosed Bat lived in limestone caves and ventured out into the forest to hunt insects. The closest living relative of the Riversleigh Leaf-nosed Bat is its descendant the Orange ...

Most bats patrol the night sky in search of insects. New World leaf-nosed bats take a different approach. Among the more than 200 species of leaf-nosed bats, there are those that hunt insects; drink ...

Scientists aren’t sure what the extinct bat would have eaten, but it’s likely it had a similar diet to the big-eared woolly bat, which primarily subsists on insects and small vertebrates. Most bats ...