Bat colonies can reach truly enormous sizes, some with millions of bats pouring out to feed each night, and one cave in Texas has the largest of them all.

It's important not to disturb hibernating bats. Shaking them will cause a loss of fat reserves they rely on to get to the end ...

The bats are common throughout Africa, but this cave was special—shaped like an ... I sat down at my own dinner table for the first time since leaving for Africa. My wife, Kathy, and all three ...

In some caves there can be as many as 20 million bats in residence. By foraging outside of caves for insects and fruits, part-time cave residents provide for those that never leave. 'Bat faeces are a ...

Follow National Geographic Photographer Sofia Jaramillo as she goes wild caving, bat-watching, and beyond in San Antonio, Texas. National Geographic Photographer and Explorer Sofia Jaramillo is ...

One of the most notable sights at Carlsbad Cavern is the spectacle of the park’s 400,000 Brazilian free-tailed bats leaving the cave each night at sunset in dramatic clouds of flapping wings; visitors ...

Every evening at sundown in the Cave of the Hanging Snakes thousands of bats leave for the night, heading out in search of food. But it's not just the bats that are on the move, hungry rat snakes ...

MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) - Wisconsin’s cave bats are in rapid decline. Now the state Department of Natural Resources is looking at new restrictions on wind turbines to help save the bats.

Instead, it hitches rides on bats. First discovered in the Tan Phu cave—part of a lava-tube cave system in Vietnam—these creatures belong to a rare group of cockroaches that have carved a ...