When a spectacled flying fox pup gets too heavy, its mother faces an impossible choice. Volunteers in Cairns are racing to ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Australia is famously a place with some of the world’s most dangerous and frightening ...

Australia’s largest bat species is suffering from an ongoing starvation event, and summer threatens to worsen impacts on ...

“They’re crawling around on the ground eating unripe dropped fruit, and quite literally dropping out of trees due to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock A single photo is giving conservationists hope for one of the world's rarest bats. A wildlife photographer on ...

Along the east coast of Australia, grey-headed flying foxes are being found dead and malnourished. Without their nightly ...

Rescuers respond to surge in callouts for the vulnerable bat species, which usually feeds on blossoms and tree nectar ...

The gray-headed flying fox is one of the world’s largest bats. It can weigh more than 2 pounds and have a wingspan of more than 5 feet. And as it migrates along Australia’s eastern coastal regions, ...

Is it a bird, is it a plane, no, it’s a…bat? And you may spot one in your neighbourhood so here’s everything you need to know. You may be familiar with the colony of grey-headed flying foxes that ...