Two newly discovered viruses lurking in bats are dangerously similar to Nipah and Hendra, both of which have caused deadly ...

Researchers have discovered two new viruses in bats that are closely related to the deadly Nipah and Hendra viruses—pathogens ...

New viruses that are genetically similar to known fatal viruses have been discovered near food sources in a concerning new ...

Scientists have discovered 20 previously unknown viruses in bats from China’s Yunnan province, including two closely related to the deadly Nipah and Hendra viruses, raising fresh concerns about the ...

I ntrepid microbe hunters have discovered 20 new viruses lurking in the bat populations of the orchards of southwestern China ...

Twenty new viruses have been discovered within bats in China, "raising urgent concerns" that these diseases might spill over ...

The research, carried out in Yunnan province in the southwest of China, raises concerns about future risks to public health.

Bats living among the orchards of Yunnan province in southwest China have been found harboring a variety of unknown pathogens ...

Now, scientists have found that adult bats are better at screening out “spam calls” than juveniles. The younger bats often wiggled their ears in response to the calls of poisonous toads, while ...

(Bats and agaves make tequila possible—and they're both at risk) Lesser long-nosed bats were already in trouble due to habitat loss, but thanks to determined conservation efforts made it off the ...

Short nosed fruit bat This animal is probably the easiest one on this list to spot during the day. It can be found anywhere there are Chinese fan palm trees, including urban parks.

Evidence for bat-like flying mammals appears as far back as the Eocene Epoch, some 50 million years ago; however, the fossil record tracing bat evolution is scanty. Based on similarities of bones and ...