So the aggressive and consistent amount of damage caused by flying has forced bats to adapt. Epstein: Bats have dampened down their response, their inflammatory response. Narrator: They produce ...

Outside of mating season, bats can be removed with exclusion devices. one-way tunnels that allow them to leave an enclosed area but don't let them come back in. The use of exclusion devices without a ...

“What I really find intriguing is that different bats evolved to have specific mechanisms for controlling virus infections or dealing with DNA damage,” said Kevin Ciminski, junior leader of the bat ...

It’s the first time they’ve been back to Bat Cave, North Carolina since Hurricane Helen hit. “This was all water,” pointed ...

Zhou and his colleagues stumbled across another clue during a comparative genomics study of two distantly related bat species. The genes that showed some of the strongest evidence of positive ...

It was unmistakably a bat, the first I had seen in Alaska. Alaska Department of Fish and Game wildlife biologist Karen Blejwas confirmed that my surprise wasn’t unfounded. Blejwas said the ...

How do wildlife researchers know when an endangered population is sick? They can detect infectious microbes in animal waste, but the presence of a microbe doesn't always equate to impactful ...