Human beings are not the only ones with a sweet tooth. Fruit bats are named after their love of sugary fruits. In fact, they ...

Epidemic-causing viruses are linked to a small number of bat families, not bats as a whole, improving outbreak prevention ...

BOZEMAN — Thanks to humans, bat deaths are climbing worldwide because of collisions with wind turbines and the outbreak of white-nose syndrome. Those facts are found in a newly released study ...

Researchers investigating Nipah-like illnesses in Bangladesh have uncovered evidence of another bat-borne virus circulating in humans. Researchers studying infectious diseases have found evidence of ...

On night walks through Highgate Wood, Cindy Blaney shares the whirling wonder of the often-maligned mammals with the humans ...

Some bat species can live cancer-free for up to 25 years, which is equivalent to 180 human years. How do they do it? Reading time 3 minutes When you think of longevity in animals, chances are that the ...

Bats are known to chew and spit out leaves, like humans chew and spit out tobacco or coca, but this is the first continuous recording of a bat eating entire leaves Elisabeth King Portrait of a Seba’s ...

Local bat populations are getting attention in the Phoenix area due to a recent mosquito surge ahead of Halloween. The Mexican free-tailed bats living in the Phoenix Bat Cave primarily eat larger prey ...

In the early 2000s, José Juan Flores Martínez was studying for a bachelor’s degree in biology and working as a volunteer in a ...

The animals' immune systems evolved to tamp down inflammation. This is an Inside Science story. Bats can harbor many viruses that are potentially deadly to humans, including those behind SARS, Ebola ...

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