Bat (animal)

Fossils radically alter ideas about the look of man's earliest ancestors

2009-10-02 00:00:00

A treasure trove of 4.4-million-year-old fossils from the Ethiopian desert is dramatically overturning widely held ideas about the early evolution of humans and how they came to walk upright, even as it paints a remarkably detailed picture of early life...

Drugs may protect bats threatened by disease known as white-nose syndrome, scientists announce

2010-09-14 21:34:45

Rabid bats on the rise in Los Angeles County this year

2010-11-17 16:33:17

The Presidio in San Francisco installs animal habitat art project

2010-05-30 00:00:00

A pair of professional arborists, licensed to climb and care for trees, were perched high in the branches of a 110-foot Monterey cypress in the Presidio park of San Francisco. Secured by harnesses and a web of rock-climbing ropes used for rappelling...

From the Vaults: 'First Spaceship on Venus' (1960)

2010-06-04 16:32:53

Santa Monica Mountains Science Festival starts Friday at Paramount Ranch

2010-04-15 16:34:47

Escape to a tropical Alcatraz

2008-10-19 00:00:00

San Lucas Island, Costa Rica "If you don't have anything to do," says the graffiti scratched into the cellblock wall, "don't come here to do it." That would have been excellent advice from 1883 to 1989, when this penitentiary on San Lucas Island was...

Twists and tunes, on a Rio Grande rafting trip

2008-03-30 00:00:00

Big Bend National Park, Texas Butch Hancock probably isn't the first singer-songwriter to wind up, 35 years after that first promising album, sleeping under a tarp down by the river. But he is the first one I've ever watched wake up. When I crawled out...

Bali drive leaves them lightheaded

2004-11-21 00:00:00

It was late December, and Brian and I were sharing a plate of boiled vegetables in peanut sauce at a cafe in the seaside town of Candidasa on the Indonesian isle of Bali. We were disagreeing about where to go for New Year's Eve. Both of us thought we...

Orange crush

2003-11-25 00:00:00

"Everybody got binoculars?" scientist Sarah Stock calls out to her passengers. There's a neck check. All binoculars here. Clipboards too. "I got a little bit of a library," says right-hand man and fellow scientist Jason Scott, passing along some well-...

A walkabout with Aborigines

2004-01-04 00:00:00

Barramundi Moon, Australia I thought I might die in Dampier Land. It wasn't just the saltwater crocodiles lurking in the mangrove creeks. It wasn't the black tip sharks patrolling the waters of King Sound. I could keep a wary eye on the 30-foot tides,...

Awed, one and all, deep below ground

2004-05-16 00:00:00

My family and I were 750 feet beneath the surface of the Earth in an isolated corner of southern New Mexico, thanks to Lou Potter, a colleague of my retired father. In the 1960s, Potter fired my dad's imagination with stories of amazing sights deep...

Venture into the wilds of the mystical Anandapur Royal Forest of Southeast Asia, a land where you'll encounter majestic tigers, a Komodo dragon, wild bats, deer and more than 50 species of exotic birds amid ancient ruins and murals.

2012-09-14 11:01:00