Despite their huge presence in our cultural landscape and the news, we know strangely little about bats —especially their mating habits. But a new study published Wednesday in PLOS ONE has unearthed a ...

The bat-faced cuphea is a flowering shrub I found during a fall plant sale event at the UF/IFAS North Florida Research and Education Center in Quincy. It made me laugh and charmed me at the same time.

What do you call a bat that only eats fruit, but isn’t classified as one of the fruit bats? One species that fits that description is thought to live in forests from Southern Mexico to the north end ...