Don’t be too frightened by these small creatures.

A bat in Spokane County tested positive for rabies, marking the area's first case in 2026, according to the Spokane Regional ...

Bats don’t often get the credit they deserve for the important role they play in their native ecosystems, where they serve as pest exterminators and crop pollinators. The lesser long-nosed bat, found ...

A bat tested positive for rabies in Coshocton County, local health officials said Thursday.

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 ...

The Ozark big-eared bat is a threatened species found only in a small number of caves in the southern central United States.

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A child in Canada has died after contracting rabies from a bat that ...

Judith Kaplan, daughter of the influential rabbi Mordechai Kaplan, became the first woman to publicly celebrate the traditional Jewish coming-of-age ceremony. Becoming a bat mitzvah, or "daughter of ...