“Something that we thought was extinct was in this beautiful place that nobody goes to,” Iroro Tanshi said of the find ...

The short-tailed roundleaf bat was feared extinct until scientist Iroro Tanshi found one in Afi sanctuary in Nigeria, and set out to protect the only confirmed roosting colony ...

Most people spot a bat swooping through the evening sky and instinctively step back inside. The reputation bats carry – ...

Not all bats are risky. New research finds specific bat families and habitats are most linked to future epidemic outbreaks.

Laura Torrent did not know that the tiny brown bat she caught in early 2024 would become a global milestone for biodiversity and conservation.She had suspected the small creature, caught during an ...

Bats possess a unique, preactivated innate immune defense that stops viruses from fully replicating, even after cell entry.

A small bat from the Western Himalayas has now been recognized as a new species, and it comes with two features that are hard to miss once you know where to look. The animal, named Myotis himalaicus ...

The Biden administration declared the northern long-eared bat endangered on Tuesday in a last-ditch effort to save a species driven to the brink of extinction by white-nose syndrome, a fungal disease.

Roosting is one of the “least understood parts of the bat’s life cycle.” Researchers in Michigan are trying to change that ...