At dusk, a Common Noctule silently bursts from a hollow tree, its wings slicing through the evening air. This is one of ...

Every day, our brain takes countless fleeting experiences - from walks on the beach to presentations at work - and transforms ...

Gliselle Marin joins the “Bat-a-thon,” a group of 80-some bat researchers who converge on Belize each year to study these winged mammals. This scientist has a bat tat and earrings. She says ...

The virus had to come from somewhere, but no one could figure out its origin. Then, scientists tested a group of bats called flying foxes and found antibodies against the (aptly named) Hendra virus.

DES MOINES, Iowa — A group of Iowa State University students had to undergo rabies vaccinations this week after they caught more than 20 bats flying about their Ames home. Quinn Norland, 21, of ...

Gliselle Marin joins the “Bat-a-thon,” a group of 80-some bat researchers who converge on Belize each year to study these winged mammals.

Unlike rabies, which causes roughly 59,000 human deaths annually, predominantly in Africa and Asia, human infection with bat ...

For their study, published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface, the group conducted experiments with bats flying in a lab environment.

Every night, bats emerge out of roosts in massive numbers, creating what scientists have called a 'cocktail party nightmare' of clashing echolocations. Nobody knew how bats managed this severe ...

Australian bat lyssavirus belongs to the Rhabdoviridae family, the same group of viruses that causes rabies. It primarily ...

The team's findings raise questions about the evolution of pterosaurs, an extinct group of flying reptiles that had membranous wings similar to those of bats.

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Scientists have long suspected that Mexican long-nosed bats migrate through southeastern Arizona, but without capturing and measuring the night-flying creatures, proof ...