Leaf-nosed bats live in Asia, Africa, Australia and New Zealand, but the species in Africa haven’t been studied as much because the areas where they live are inaccessible.

Like its bigger cousin, Griffin's leaf-nosed bat a bizarre-looking array of leaflike facial protuberances that are thought to enhance the echolocation signals it sends out to avoid obstacles and ...

Meet Hipposideros griffini, who’s also known as Griffin’s leaf-nosed bat of Vietnam. This newly discovered species possesses a unique configuration of leaf-like protrusions on its schnoz that ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service estimated at the time that the population of lesser long-nosed bats had risen to about 200,000 bats, in at least 75 roosts between the U.S. and Mexico.

Scientists spotted the great Himalayan leaf-nosed bat in Bangladesh for the first time, expanding the map of where this fascinating creature lives across Asia, as reported by Mongabay. A team of ...

On moonless nights in a tropical forest, bats slice through the inky darkness, snatching up insects resting silently on leaves—a seemingly impossible feat. New experiments at the Smithsonian Tropical ...

First record of Great Himalayan leaf-nosed bat, Hipposideros armiger (Hipposideridae) from Bangladesh. Mammalia, 88 (5), 451-454. doi: 10.1515/mammalia-2024-0003 ...

A new species of bat whose face bristles with leaf-like protrusions has been discovered in Vietnam, a new study says. When scientists first spotted Griffin's leaf-nosed bat in Chu Mom Ray National ...