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Mark Stratton: This is Scientific American’s 60-Second Science. I’m Mark Stratton. It was lights out, and the babies were up—again. Ahana Fernandez of the Natural History Museum, Berlin, pointed her ...

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Video captured the scene as a bat-wielding woman randomly attacked another woman who was walking a baby in a stroller on Chicago's Northwest Side, one of what is now believed to be several such ...

The babbling behavior of baby bats bears a striking likeness to babbling in human infants, according to a new study, which represents “the first formal analysis of bat pup babbling,” according to its ...

Mother and pup of the bat species Saccopteryx bilineata. Similar to human infants, pups begin babbling at a young age as they develop language skills. Michael Stifter Ask any mother: babies babble. It ...

Cincinnati Zoo's baby bat-eared fox is continuing to grow, now getting in some training sessions.The zoo said Kalahari, who was born in April, will eventually become an ambassador animal, and visitors ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Without his love of animals, Dianne Odegard joked it’s unlikely she would have ever ended up with Lee Mackenzie. Thankfully, that wasn’t a hurdle for Mackenzie, who now spends his ...

A bizarre New Zealand bat that is as much at home walking four-legged on the ground as winging through the air had an Australian ancestor 20 million years ago with the same rare ability, a new study ...

A teenager has been jailed after leaving a 16-year-old disabled by bludgeoning him with a homemade bat inspired by The Walking Dead. John Callis-Woolsey, 18, smashed the boy’s skull with the baseball ...

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