But with such a heavy viral cargo, how do bats manage to survive? Researchers believe it actually comes down to their ability to fly. Jon Epstein: The inflammation that results from the physical ...

This is heartening news. Researchers make surprising discovery about beavers' impact on other wildlife: 'Incredible ability' ...

In Teeling’s early work, she played a key role in constructing the evolutionary history of bats, including how echolocation arose. 14 But she soon realized that echolocation wasn’t the only unusual ...

Now, 75 years along, we know that in step with bats’ ability to “see” with sound, plants themselves have shaped their flowers to be heard, becoming as brilliant to the bat’s ear as their ...

Bats are unique. Even though they share the characteristics of all mammals - hair, regulated body temperature, the ability to bear their young alive and nurse them - bats are the only mammals to truly ...

Other researchers have suggested that bats’ super-tolerance might have something to do with their ability to generate large repertoires of naïve antibodies, or that flight ramps up the animals’ body ...

These bats are known for their ability to stitch together thousands of sound signatures into acoustic maps. Remarkably, even ...

Tricolored bats are also threatened by human disturbance at hibernation and roost sites, wind energy, habitat loss, pesticides and climate change. The species' low reproductive rate constrains its ...

Many people are surprised to learn that there are bats in Alaska at all, said Blejwas, who is based in Juneau. They’ve proven ...