This story appears in the March 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. Nature’s inventiveness knows no bounds. Consider the case of the nectar-drinking bat and the night-flowering vine ...

Cristobal Serrano (Spain) illuminates the darkness, revealing the scarlet tongue of a nectar-loving bat as it feeds. Photographing nectar-eating bats pollinating flowers at night is a challenge. But ...

With more than 40 species of bats found in North America, chances are good that these flying mammals are cruising through ...

Researchers have discovered a new global threat to pollination - artificial light at night, which was found to reduce visits of nocturnal pollinators to flowers by 62%. The impact of this is a ...

This bat species is part of the leaf-nosed bat family, meaning they have a triangular flap of tissue shaped like a leaf at the end of their noses. Those noses help them detect the scent of ...