Concern around declining bat population exists because bats are beneficial to our ecosystem. Bats benefit the agriculture ...

To establish bat cell lines, Letko and his team isolated and cultured cells from different tissues of a Seba’s short-tailed bat. They then tried various methods to immortalize the cells, including ...

Bats have disease-defying superpowers. ... “We should see this high level of damage” to DNA in bats, Teeling said. But in experiments, that is not what she and her colleagues have found.

Bats are able to consume an extraordinary amount of sugar with no ill effects. Scientists are trying to learn more about how bats do it — and whether humans can learn from their sugar response.

Three of Arkansas's 16 species of bats are listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act. A fourth species is expected to be added soon and has been "proposed endangered." Credit: JAVARMAN ...