As twilight settles, the world’s most misunderstood mammals take to the skies. Bats, with their leathery wings and mysterious ways, have long fascinated—and, let’s be honest, sometimes ...

Bats get a bad rap, but once you look past the vampire lore and spooky Halloween vibes, they’re actually kind of adorable.

Huabin Zhao from China’s Wuhan University and his colleagues discovered the bats’ weakened bitter taste when they found a much greater number of the vampire bat bitter taste receptor genes were ...