With unique and ominous blooms, the black bat flower (Tacca chantrieri) is an endangered plant species. This flowering plant ...

The Black Bat Flower, also known as Tacca chantrieri, is one of the most intriguing flowers you can add to your garden. Native to the tropical regions of Southeast Asia, this plant features large ...

The bat’s long tongue springs a hidden switch, exploding the pea-pod keel. As it laps deep in the flower’s nectary, spring-loaded anthers burst from the keel and gild the bat’s tiny rump ...

(The stigma is the sticky section of a flower that receives pollen.) Much like the hummingbird, the fruit bat prefers pendulous flowers so that it can fly in place while feeding. Because the ...

Those noses help them detect the scent of blooming flowers, but it’s their impressive tongues that make lesser long-nosed bats such valuable pollinators: Measuring about three inches ...

The structure of the wing membrane, the arrangement of the bones supporting it, and the positioning of the muscles provide the bat with the lightness and maneuverability necessary for catching insects ...