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 ...

From pandemic precautions to televised talent shows, masks are having a moment. Even this bizarre bat species has a built-in "face mask," which it uses to cover its wrinkly face during courtship ...

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 ...

For tips on how to flirt while wearing a mask, take notes from nature’s experts: male wrinkle-faced bats. The first video of a wrinkle-faced sexual encounter shows a male covering his face with a ...

Wrinkle-faced bats incorporate whistles, wing flaps and furry masks into their mating rituals, researchers have found. By Katherine J. Wu Wrinkle-faced bats are full of contradictions. Despite their ...