MANILA — There might be more fruit bat species in the Philippines than previously thought, according to a genetic study, underlining the possibility that each individual species might be more ...

She mentions the Philippine bare-backed fruit bat. There were no sightings of that species between the 1960s and 1990s, so it was declared extinct. But it was rediscovered in 2000.

MAYANTOC, Tarlac, Philippines — To go bat hunting, Jack Carbonel puts on a headlamp, straps a machete to his waist and makes a spear by lashing a sharpened metal stick to a thin bamboo sapling ...

GIANT PHILIPPINE BATS; Santos-Dumonts of the Archipelago Give Rise to a New Sport -- How American Officers Go Out After Them with Guns About Dusk.

Five Reasons to Love Bats For Bat Week this year, we rounded up five reasons to love and conserve these misunderstood mammals.

Social media is going batty for a “human-sized” bat. Twitter user @AlexJoestar622 posted a photo that seemingly showed an extremely large, black-winged mammal just hanging out. The snap was ...

BORACAY ISLAND, Philippines — The bats that swarmed Boracay’s evening skies were once as iconic as the pristine white sand beaches that made this tiny island in the central Philippines one of ...

Nipah virus, first identified in 1998, remains a deadly threat due to bat reservoirs, human practices, high fatality rates, ...

A recent picture shared on Twitter of a “human-sized” bat from the Philippines is taking the internet by storm and netizens are thoroughly spooked out.

There’s a Filipino kid in the lower corner, for scale, next to a motorcycle and a basket of fruit hanging nearby. And in the center, a slumbering man-sized bat creature that’s pretty hard to miss.

The population of fruit bats living in a sanctuary on the Philippines' Samal island has grown to such an extent that many of them are now looking for new places to roost. To relieve overcrowding ...