As fans of the national pastime gear up for another opening day, a change has been seen at sporting goods stores all over the U.S. as new baseball bats carry warning stickers advising that they may be ...

The winged mammal has a unique ability to carry viruses and not get sick from them. This tolerance may be a unique adaptation to flying. Bats Carry Many Viruses. So Why Don't They Get Sick? Like Ebola ...

As backyard barbecues continue into the fall, mosquitoes appear to be mysteriously absent, raising suspicion that local bats have clocked in for their night shifts and they're working overtime. Bats ...

GYMPIE, Australia, May 16 (REUTERS) - If the world is to reduce the risk of global pandemics, scientists say, we must better manage how we interact with bats, carriers of viruses responsible for some ...

NORMAN, OKLA. – A groundbreaking study published in Nature’s Communications Biology sheds new light on the relationship between bats and dangerous viruses. Led by researchers at the University of ...

The current coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is considered a zoonotic pandemic, as SARS-CoV-2 has been ...

It's dusk in central Bangladesh, in a community within the district of Faridpur. A 50-year-old man sits outside his home beside a rice paddy. His name is Khokon. A fiery beard, dyed a bright orange, ...

Bats have a bad reputation for carrying nasty diseases—and biology has a reason for this! While it's certainly not their ...

Bats are an important part of the ecosystem, eating pesky insects most humans hate. Sellers market bat homes, man-made roosts, to encourage them to stick around and eat insects. Tennessee is home to ...

Like Ebola virus in Africa and the Nipah virus in Asia, the new coronavirus — 2019-nCoV — appears to have originated in bats. Chinese researchers took samples of the coronavirus from patients in Wuhan ...