Bats are known as natural hosts for highly pathogenic viruses such as MERS- and SARS-related coronaviruses, as well as the Marburg and Nipah viruses. In contrast to the severe and often fatal disease ...

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

One morning at the Unitarian Fellowship meeting my friend Kim mentioned that the big kapok tree by her place nearby was in ...

Mollie Byrne recalls spending summers with her family at a camp on the Juniata River in Bedford County, in south central ...

At the Northumberland Zoo, in the UK, an ultra rare and extremely cute bat gave birth to a precious pup while hanging upside down and, for the first time ever, zoo staff were able to capture the ...

Jerry McGowan doubled, homered and drove in four runs and Matt Vanaman tossed a one-hitter as Cedar Creek downed Holy Spirit 11-1 in Egg Harbor City. Vanaman went the distance in the five-inning ...

Bat. Photo by James Wainscoat, via Unsplash. Though bats are better known for their echolocation capabilities, some species can mimic human vocal sounds. The Egyptian fruit bat, for example, uses a ...

A new study, published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, used Jamaican fruit bats in a lab setting to measure the impact of diet on viral shedding. The bats were exposed ...

As a person who has been writing about food for the past 25 years, I’m embarrassed to admit one thing: I don’t really like fruit. Aside from peaches (which I adore), strawberries, and the occasional ...

EXCLUSIVE: Former HBO executive Amy Hodge has been appointed as Head of Television for Fruit Tree, the production company founded by Emma Stone and Dave McCary. This marks the first Head of TV ...

The love songs of these Panamanian frogs is a dinner bell for fringe-lipped bats. But how do they learn which frogs and toads are safe to eat and which are poisonous? A fringe-lipped bat zeroes in ...

However, the frog-eating fringe-lipped bat (Trachops cirrhosus) uses sound instead of looking out for bright colors. The species is known to eavesdrop on frog and toad mating calls to locate its ...