The Orange County Healthcare Agency said a bat found in Irvine Regional Park has tested positive for rabies.

This is the county's first rabies-positive animal of the year. Officials are now encouraging Michiganders to take precautions ...

KENT COUNTY, MI — Health officials want residents to know how to handle bats that enter homes, particularly after a rabies-positive bat was found in Kent County. Kent County Health Department leaders ...

(KRON) — A rabid bat was found earlier this week near a sidewalk in the Palo Verde Common in South Fremont. According to the Fremont Police Department, Alameda County Vector Control collected the bat ...

Four of the nine species of Adirondack bats belong to the genus Myotis, the mouse-eared bats. The little brown bat is the most abundant of the four, and is the common bat of the region. During the ...

Who has the best bat speed in Major League Baseball? We can finally answer that question. Statcast unveiled its all-new bat ...

Studies have demonstrated that ~60%–80% of emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) in humans originated from wild life. Bats are natural reservoirs of a large variety of viruses, including many important ...

The ears of bat-eared foxes can grow up to 5.3 inches long. For an animal that stands 11.8-15.7 inches at the shoulder, that’s enormous. Bat-eared foxes use these specialized ears to locate termites, ...

Angela Nelson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning digital editor and storyteller who covered a variety of general interest stories on MNN (now part of Treehugger) from 2014-2019. If a bat has found its way ...