WASHINGTON — The United States Mint has released the final designs for the America the Beautiful Quarters program, and one of the designs depicts a Samoan fruit bat hanging in a tree with her pup. The ...

Bats were marked and monitored on Barro Colorado Island, Panamá, to study seasonal and annual variation in distribution, abundance, and natural history from 1975 through 1980. Data gathered advances ...

Forget the good old eagle on the reverse side of quarters! In 2020, you could have a fruit bat on it instead. As part of the U.S. Mint’s America the Beautiful Quarters program, six special designs, ...

This release is also available in German. The retinas of most mammals contain two types of photoreceptor cells, the cones for daylight vision and colour vision, and the more sensitive rods for night ...

Led by the University of Sydney, a scientific team has analysed the nutritional content of Christmas Island flying foxes' diets and found that introduced plant species do not provide a balanced meal.

Instead of "Heads or tails?" you could be asking "Heads or bat?" in 2020. The U.S. Mint is issuing new quarters in 2020 that will have fruit bats depicted on the back, according to its official ...

More than four dozen Jamaican fruit bats destined for a lab in Bozeman, Montana, are set to become part of an experiment with an ambitious goal: predicting the next global pandemic. Bats worldwide are ...