Fruit bats earned their name for a pretty obvious reason: their affinity for fruit. Also known as flying foxes, these ...

Reaching a 6-foot wingspan is the definitive physical requirement for the giant golden-crowned flying fox. Bats have inspired many pop culture references, most famously vampires. But did you know ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—From some 8,000 miles away, Mississippi State scientist Manuel Ruiz-Aravena in the university’s Forest and Wildlife Research Center is studying flying foxes, or fruit bats, in ...

Flying foxes are a type of bat within the Chiroptera order of mammals. There are several different species and, unfortunately, two native Australian species have suffered sudden and dramatic losses ...

Feb. 3 (UPI) --Animal rescuers in Australia responded to a hotel where a bat apparently attempted to take a drink from the swimming pool and became trapped in the water. Kate CJ Murphy, president of ...

A platypus playing in the river, tree kangaroos hiding above and bats screeching overhead… this isn’t the Duke gardens! 10,185 miles away, three Duke students find themselves in Yungaburra, Australia.

More than 4300 people have signed a ‘stop shooting flying foxes’ petition to Parliament, calling on the state government to end ‘inhumane’ culling, and give greater help to farmers to protect their ...