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Bats Use Leaves as Mirrors to Find Prey in the Dark

August 2, 2019

The approach angle is the key

Bats Evolved Diverse Skull Shapes Due to Echolocation, Diet

May 2, 2019

With so much morphological variety, bats represent an opportunity to learn what types of evolutionary forces shape the shapes...

Bat Influenza Viruses Could Infect Humans

February 22, 2019

Bats have been the focus of virologists for a long time already as they carry many different kinds of viruses

New Study May Provide Clues to How Birds Began to Fly

October 22, 2018

Although the study was performed on bats, it has implications for birds and insects

Just How Blind Are Bats? Color Vision Gene Study Examines Key Sensory Tradeoffs

October 17, 2018

A new study has examined this question in the evolution of color vision genes across a large and diverse group of bat sp...

Ebola Species Found in Bats Ahead of Any Potential Outbreak

August 29, 2018

Discovery illustrates PREDICT project's goal to find viruses before they spillover into people

Bats as Barometer of Change

February 14, 2018

Bats shifting behavioral patterns, due to environmental change, could have far-reaching implications for global agriculture...

Lethal Fungus That Causes White-Nose Syndrome May Have an Achilles' Heel, Study Reveals

January 3, 2018

A team of scientists from the U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the University of New Hampshire found ...

Bat Guano: A Reliable Record of Climate Change

October 30, 2017

Bat guano has long been known as a valuable fuel source and fertilizer. Now the excrement is a reliable record of climate cha...

Metal Exposure—a Factor in Bat Population Decline

June 13, 2016

Metals are present in a wide range of habitats, with a large number of land sites in the UK remaining contaminated since the ...

Bat Disease Fungus Found to Be Widespread in Northeast China

November 6, 2015

Discovery greatly expands the known distribution of the fungus that causes white-nose syndrome, which has decimated bat popul...

5 Things About Bats that Make Them Less Scary

October 30, 2015

Many people are terrified of bats, but there are plenty of reasons to like them, including some recent discoveries from bat r...

A Feel for Flight: How Studying Bat Touch Could Help Build Better Planes

May 1, 2015

Can bats teach aircraft designers a thing or two? Learn how understanding the neuroscience of bat flight could help us design...

Bats Change Strategy When Food is Scarce

October 31, 2014

Bats could be more flexible in their echolocation behaviour than previously thought, according to a new study into the foragi...

Understanding the Bushmeat Market: Why Do People Risk Infection From Bat Meat?

October 9, 2014

Ebola, as with many emerging infections, is likely to have arisen due to man’s interaction with wild animals – mo...

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