Often compared to a "teddy bear", advocates hope the special snap of an endangered flying fox carrying its pup will shine a ...

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 ...

A deadly combination of heatwaves has all but decimated a colony of flying foxes in SA's south-east, with surviving bats ...

Volunteers found thousands of dead bats at Melbourne’s Brimbank park, wildlife expert says ...

A group of 18 giant bats took the plane from Tampa to the Alamo City, where the San Antonio Zoo is welcoming the endangered species for the first time since the 1980s. The Malayan flying foxes, as ...

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 ...

Federally listed as vulnerable to extinction because numbers have fallen around Australia, there are at least 15 sites in Victoria where the colonies could collapse, significantly decreasing their ...

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 ...

Thousands of flying foxes are reported to have died in the heat wave, where temperatures exceeded 100°F A record-breaking number of flying foxes died during Australia's weekend heat wave, according to ...