Meet the biggest bat in the world, the Philippines' giant golden-crowned flying fox. Despite their terrifying wingspan of ...

Recent research led by Tigga Kingston, a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Texas Tech University, delivers a stark warning concerning the distressing decline of flying foxes and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fruit bats have honed their sweet tooth through adaptive evolution. Keith Rose/iStock via Getty Images Plus People around the ...

A high-sugar diet is bad news for humans, leading to diabetes, obesity and even cancer. Yet fruit bats survive and even thrive by eating up to twice their body weight in sugary fruit every day. Now, ...

This Artibeus fruit bat feasts on sugary fruit every night but these winged mammals don’t suffer from diabetes or other metabolic problems as humans might if we were to gorge on sugar. Some bats like ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The closeup image of Malayan flying fox (Pteropus vampyrus). a southeast Asian species of megabat, primarily feeds on flowers, ...

Fruit bats feed on a variety of fruit, pollen, and nectar to get plenty of energy. Fruit bats have earned their name, as they greatly enjoy munching on fruits of all types. In the featured Instagram ...

Island ecosystems host a remarkable array of fruit‐eating bats that underpin critical ecological functions such as seed dispersal and pollination. Many island fruit bats, notably members of the ...