Rep. Victoria Garcia Wilburn wrote a bill inspired by a fifth grade class that would designate Indiana's official state ...

Animal rescuers in Australia responded to a hotel where a bat apparently attempted to take a drink from the swimming pool and ...

Five years removed from the COVID-19 outbreak, scientists around the world are still studying its effects and, more importantly, ways those effects can be mitigated in the future.

That's when the students pitched an idea: Honor the Indiana bat with the designation of Indiana's official state mammal. “They set up a proposal for me to listen to, educating me about the cost ...

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

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

Many viruses have been linked to bats, as they are known disease carriers. The Ebola, Marburg, Nipah, and Hendra viruses […] ...

The greater mouse-eared bat, known by its Latin name as Myotis myotis, was declared extinct in the UK in 1992 following decades of decline. In 2002, however, a single male was discovered hibernating ...

Health inspectors have detected rabies in dead bats around Reedley and Fresno, and those bats may have been in contact with ...

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.