To investigate, the team analysed hundreds of thousands of red blood cells from common noctule bats (Nyctalus noctula), which hibernate, and Egyptian fruit bats (Rousettus aegyptiacus), which don ...

The team observed how red blood cells of all three species reacted to three temperatures: 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit, roughly the core body temperature of humans and both bat species; 73 degrees ...

Noctilionoid bat species evolved wildly different faces as they adapted to exploit diverse food sources -- including insects, fruit, nectar, blood and fish. New research shows that those ...

Regulatory DNA helps fruit bats to control their blood sugar and ensure their sugar-rich diet doesn’t do them any harm, scientists have said.. Despite gorging on sugary fruit, fruit bats suffer no ill ...

Python Cave is home to as many as 50,000 Egyptian fruit bats, and the predators emerged from the cave with a winged snack, which they either hunted or scavenged, in their mouths.

A group of bats has a similar—and more expansive—evolutionary story to tell. There are more than 200 species of noctilionoid bats, mostly in the American tropics.