Bats

Bats can get plastered on alcohol in ripe fruit. New research shows how they avoid flying under the influence.

Bizarre-looking bats and other animals can be sorted by a new DNA method that promises further discoveries. But you'll want to see the freaky photos...

Scientists have discovered the second species of bats with suckers attached to their feet allowing them to cling upright to smooth tree leaves.

What a face! Scientists learn how bats channel their echolocation sounds using the sometimes grotesque folds and grooves. The finding could improve human technology.

Add baby bats to the small but growing list of creatures that babble before they can fully communicate.

And bats with large testicles have small brains—a steep price to pay for producing lots of sperm.

Vampires prefer cows but will slurp human blood if needed. Find out why.

Mate sharing in greater horseshoe bats strengthens social bonds within the colony.

As if nature really needed to endow vampire bats with anything more unusual than the ability to fly and a propensity to drink blood.