PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Move over, Fat Bear Week. A bat beauty contest is now stepping up to the plate. The Bureau of Land Management has hosted the online competition since 2019 to raise awareness ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This undated image provided by the Bureau of Land Management shows the bat Hoary Potter. (Emma Busk/Bureau of Land Management via ...

An Oregon bat was once again declared the Bureau of Land Management's most beautiful bat for the third year in a row during the annual Bat Beauty Contest. Hoary Potter, a hoary bat, took home the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Leslie Katz covers the intersection of culture, science and tech. Bat beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Some people find Sir ...

The San Diego Humane Society honored World Wildlife Conservation Day with a first-time event: the successful release of a hoary bat equipped with a Motus tracking device, a first for this species in ...

Emma Busk / Bureau of Land Management A bat from Southern Oregon has been crowned the winner of the Bureau of Land Management’s annual Bat Beauty Contest. It’s the third consecutive year that a bat ...

Most kids won‘t go trick-or-treating until later tonight, but Halloween festivities started early for Oregon’s furriest winged resident — and brought in a well-deserved victory. Last week, the Bureau ...

In the spring 2023, I was preparing to go on a wildflower hike with Jack Easton, the Rivers & Lands Conservancy’s retired executive director, when our plans were disrupted. My neighbor marched across ...

CARLSBAD, Calif. (FOX 5/KUSI) — The San Diego Humane Society recently released a rehabilitated hoary bat, the first of its kind in Southern California to be equipped with a specific tracking ...

Did you know that Texas has the highest number of bat species in the United States and has been designated as the most "bat friendly" state? Of the 43 bat species currently known to occur in the U. S.