The bat’s long tongue springs a hidden switch, exploding the pea-pod keel. As it laps deep in the flower’s nectary, spring-loaded anthers burst from the keel and gild the bat’s tiny rump ...

With dark, velvety bracts that resemble bat wings and whisker-like filaments, the black bat flower is an exotic plant that adds a touch of mystery to any garden. Native to forests in Asia and ...

Those noses help them detect the scent of blooming flowers, but it’s their impressive tongues that make lesser long-nosed bats such valuable pollinators: Measuring about three inches ...

The structure of the wing membrane, the arrangement of the bones supporting it, and the positioning of the muscles provide the bat with the lightness and maneuverability necessary for catching insects ...

Every spring three species of nectar-feeding bats travel several hundred miles from Mexico, into Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, to reach maternity roosts where they rear their young.