Here are eight tiny tyne creatures known as the smallest mammals of the earth. At only 1.3g, the extinct B. vanhouteni is believed to be the smallest mammal that ever lived. This tiny, shrew-like ...

Of the world’s 1,400 bat species, only eight live in Minnesota. Four of the eight spend the winter hibernating ...

Discovered in the state of Ceará, Brazil, the novel coronavirus shares similarities with the virus responsible for Middle ...

From the bumblebee bat to the Baluchistan pygmy jerboa, here are eight of the world's smallest mammals who thrive in a world ...

African giant pouched rats like Carolina prevented nearly 400,000 new cases of a deadly disease. It's possible because of ...

Shi Zhengli, a leading virologist, became known as “Bat Woman” for her work on coronaviruses. She has spent decades studying ...

Bats are unique animals. As the only mammal capable of flight, they also have the particularity of sleeping upside down.

In a study published in the journal, Cell, Jing Chen, PhD, and colleagues at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Wuhan, China, ...

Two Austin residents moved back into their old homes Saturday after making full recoveries at rehab. Their names were Arlo ...

A man accused of killing his girlfriend in Socorro County in 2022 was arrested during a law enforcement operation in ...

A team of scientists in Wuhan have reported the discovery of a new bat-borne coronavirus that carries the risk of animal-to-human transmission. Named HKU5-CoV-2, it is capable of entering human ...

Chordata, the phylum to which bats belong, encompasses a diverse range of animals with a notochord – a flexible rod-like structure providing support and serves as a precursor to the spine. Bats, as ...