Four little brown bats. Credit: Joseph Hoyt of Virginia Tech Since 2006, a fungal disease called white-nose syndrome has caused sharp declines in bat populations…
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Right wing of a cave nectar bat (Eonycteris spelaea) extended to show the forearm, plagiopatagium, and supplying vasculature. Credit: Zhu Feng, Duke-NUS Medical School Study…
Hypothesized approach of a sleeping white-necked jacobin, Florisuga mellivora, by the fringe-lipped bat, Trachops cirrhosus. Credit: Illustration by Amy Koehler Poop is full of secrets.…
Greater mouse-eared bat (Myotis myotis). Credit: Olivier Farcy First six reference-quality bat genomes released and analyzed. For the first time, the raw genetic material that…
A study that sequenced genomes from six widely divergent living bat species, including Phyllostomus discolor, the pale spear-nosed bat, reveals the genetics behind some bat…
The current SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has a likely connection to bats, and the next viral outbreak probably will too, unless scientists can quickly learn more about…
Bats—the only flying mammals—are highly mobile, constantly bringing new pathogens into their communities. According to University of Rochester biologists, that’s one reason they have evolved…
There is ongoing debate among policymakers and the general public about where SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, came from. While researchers consider bats the…
Bat-virus adaptation may explain species spillover, researchers say. A University of Saskatchewan (USask) research team has uncovered how bats can carry the Middle East respiratory…
A mother fruit bat with her nursing pup. These fruit bats (Rousettus madagascariensis) from Ankarana in northern Madagascar are from a species that carries a…
We found Hipposideros caffer (Sundevall’s leaf-nosed bat) to consist of 8 distinct lineages; 3 of these (including this bat) appear to be new to science.…
“Backpack” computers used to track small animals’ social behavior contain sensors about the size of a fingertip. Credit: Simon Ripperger Lightweight wireless network enables precise…
It starts with a gradual buildup of trust, study finds. We humans can explain how our relationships with college roommates and co-workers have formed over…
A Kenyan fruit bat, Epomophorus wahlbergi. Credit: Holly Lutz At a time when kombucha is commonplace on cafe menus and “probiotic-fortified” has become the newest…
This is a photograph from outer space. Credit: ISS047-E-29989 courtesy of the Image Science & Analysis The metropolitan area of Berlin is mostly unsuitable as…
This image shows the illumination of bat caves. Credit: Stefan Greif Artificial light influences the behavior of many nocturnal animals such as bats, which are…
Infectious diseases spilling over from wildlife are not new — as of 2008, approximately 70 percent of all known emerging diseases are thought to have…
This picture shows a tagged desmodus rotundus bat in the wild. Credit: Sherri ad Brock Fenton Vampire bats that share food and groom each other…
This is an Antrozous pallidus with a scorpion. Credit: Merlin Tuttle In the arms race between predators and prey, each evolves more and more sophisticated…
A horseshoe bat that will likely be described as a new species in the next steps of this research. Credit: Jens Rydell There are way…