But while bats are known for carrying viruses that cause diseases like rabies and Ebola, they also play a vital role in ecosystems around the world. Rodrigo Medellín, a bat expert who has been ...

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

Bats may broadcast their personalities to others from a distance, new experiments suggest, which could play into social dynamics within a colony.

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

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

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

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.

If noises from your chimney have you wondering what's going on in there, you could have unwelcome animals that need to be ...

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

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

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