Yet until recently, scientists didn’t fully understand why bats are so good at harboring pathogens that don’t seem to harm ...

Take “bat tunnels”, the structures designed to help bats safely navigate developments which recently drew the chancellor’s ...

Bats carry viral pathogens that typically do not lead to severe disease in the bats themselves but can be lethal to humans. Adaptations in certain immune genes might contribute to this resistance.

Around the time that bat ancestors evolved powered flight, their genomes picked up immune adaptations that can quell viral ...

New research from the University of St Andrews has shown that bats can tolerate coronaviruses and other viruses without ...

Bats in the noctilionoid group, like Darwin’s finches, have evolved an impressive variety of jaw and tooth adaptations to ...

Bats harbor many viruses that can spill over into humans, including Marburg, Ebola, and famously SARS-CoV-2. But while these ...

After a decline of over 90 per cent in little brown bats and northern long-eared bats in Nova Scotia, researchers are hopeful ...

A team of animal behaviorists at the Leibniz-Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science's, Museum für Naturkunde, and ...

Attracting seed-dispersing bats to degraded landscapes and aiding in tropical forest restoration efforts has long been an ...

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

Experts say a breeding pair of the species has not been found in the UK for decades.