A study from Tel Aviv University, the first of its kind on mammals, has found that bats living in urban environments give ...

As a busway threatens to rip through 60-acres of biodiverse Cambridgeshire countryside, residents are fighting to preserve ...

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

Like their airborne mammalian idols, echolocation helps oilbirds to find their way in the darkness of caves, but in contrast ...

Scientists and Indigenous community members documented 27 new-to-science species in Peru’s Alto Mayo region, including four ...

Hong Kong is often called Asia’s “city that never sleeps”. This is not only true for its human residents, but its animal ones, too. In the seemingly quiet Hong Kong countryside, dozens of ...

Singapore is home to several bat species. These range from fruit bats, like the commonly seen Lesser Dog-faced Fruit Bat (Cynopterus brachyotis), to insect-eating species like the Whiskered Myotis ...

Tanzania's president said a sample tested positive for the Marburg virus, which has a fatality rate of up to 88 percent if untreated.

Fruit bats, or ‘flying foxes ... Despite their ecological significance, bats face numerous threats that endanger their populations. Habitat loss due to deforestation, urbanization, and agriculture ...

WHO reported Wednesday that a suspected outbreak of Marburg disease has claimed eight lives in a remote region of northern Tanzania.

Like Ebola, the Marburg virus originates in fruit bats and spreads between people through close contact with the bodily fluids of infected individuals or with surfaces, such as contaminated bed ...