Beyond the well-known elephants and tigers, the world teems with tiny mammals playing crucial roles. From the Etruscan shrew, ...

A Microscopic Marvel: The Bumblebee Bat (image credits: unsplash) The bumblebee bat, also known as Kitti’s hog-nosed bat, is truly a marvel of nature. Measuring a mere 1.1 to 1.3 inches in length and ...

The Bumblebee Bat, also known as Craseonycteris thonglongyai, is one of the smallest mammals in the world, measuring only about an inch long and weighing less than a penny. These bats have a unique ...

This tiny bat measures just 29 to 33 millimetres (about 1.1 to 1.3 inches) in length, about the size of a large bumblebee, which is where it gets its name. It weighs only about 2 grams, roughly ...

Predators are far more likely to attack adult moths than caterpillars, highlighting the protective power of metamorphosis.

Even bats in the tropics, where it’s warm all year, store fat in anticipation of dry seasons when food becomes scarce. That’s ...

Bats are now being recognized as unexpected allies in the fight against spotted lanternflies, a major threat to New Jersey's ...

Python Cave is home to as many as 50,000 Egyptian fruit bats, and the predators emerged from the cave with a winged snack, which they either hunted or scavenged, in their mouths.

Specifically, little brown bats carry two copies of the gene, and have high p53 activity, which can get rid of cancer cells during apoptosis, a biological process that eliminates unwanted cells.