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

Humans don't have hollow bones like birds do, so how big would our wings have to be to lift us off the ground?

Originally tagged in Switzerland, the bats later dispersed, flying in a general northeastern ... according to the paper. “This was actually a big surprise. We had some clue that bats were ...

The discovery of Hendra foreshadowed three decades of emerging infectious diseases dominated by bat-borne zoonotic viruses – ...

Waiting for them under the tree in our sunny Pasadena living room might be left-handed oven mitts or can openers, kitchen ...

As a flying squirrel descends through the air from a high perch to a perch some distance lower, the animal is merely gliding, not flying. The only mammals to have mastered true flight are bats.

Elaine Power first became interested in studying coprophagy—the practice of eating feces—when she was teaching high school ...

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

Kate CJ Murphy, president of Townsville Bat Rescue Australia, posted a video to the organization's Facebook page showing the black flying fox swimming in the pool, unable to get out. Advertisement ...