After a wildfire scorched the forest home of a rare bat species, ecologist Iroro Tanshi committed to stopping similar blazes ...

Community help is no longer just nice to have in the world of bat conservation, it is essential to large-scale bat monitoring ...

More than 75% of new infectious diseases affecting humans originally come from animals. Bats, in particular, are natural hosts to some of the world's most dangerous viruses, including those ...

For a vampire bat, a neurologically impaired deer is an ideal target. These fist-sized mammals survive solely on blood, ...

Inside the gaping mouth of Mammoth Cave, hibernating bats sleep in permanent twilight, each huddled in its own limestone crevice. Every fall, these big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus) squeeze their ...

Nigeria is home to 100 known species of bats—about a third of Africa’s bat species—but scientists don’t know much about them. Ecologists Iroro Tanshi and Benneth Obitte, collaborators and life ...

Babies babble for a good while before they are capable of forming and enunciating full words. Bats do too, even though their ...

The much-discussed torpedo bat, spotlighted after the Yankees’ record-setting home run game, has been shown in lab tests to perform on par with a traditional bat. Researchers noted only a slight ...

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Today the fungus has spread to 19 states and 4 Canadian provinces, and infected nine bat species, including the endangered Indiana and gray bats. A 2010 study in the journal Science predicted that the ...