Researchers may have just found the answer: Unlike birds, the evolution of bats' wings and legs is tightly coupled, which may have prevented them from filling as many ecological niches as birds.

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. When comparing the newly sequenced bat genomes to other mammals, the researchers found that some immune gene families were expanded. However, ...

Teeling, now a geneticist at University College Dublin and one of the most recognizable faces in bat research, initially hoped to study the evolution of mate choice behavior in cats. When that didn’t ...

Scientists have identified a novel influenza A virus (H18N12) in fishing bats in the Colombian Caribbean, revealing genetic ...