The Little Mariana fruit bat belongs to the "megabat" family – a grouping that contains some of the largest bats in the world. We know hardly anything about this fruit bat's biology – what ...

With no confirmed sightings of it in over 50 years, the little Mariana fruit bat has been declared extinct by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. It’s one of 21 species, including birds and ...

Mariana fruit bats, also known as flying foxes or fanihi, are medium-sized bats with dark fur. (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) Bats are in desperate need of a new public relations team. They’ve ...

Eight mussel species and the little Mariana fruit bat, previously found in Guam, were also delisted. Of the delisted species, all but two were first listed as endangered before 1990, and none had ...

The Mariana fruit bat's (Pteropus mariannus) chances of acquiring the deadly virus that killed a hundred people and caused the ruin of animal farms in certain parts of Southeast Asia is very slim, the ...