A new study led by Cornell University researchers warns that habitat loss and changes in bat diets can significantly increase ...

Preliminary investigations have linked the outbreak to three children who consumed bat meat in January and subsequently died. This initial transmission event appears to have sparked the wider ...

The Ozark big-eared bat is a threatened species found only in a small number of caves in the southern central United States. Also known as the western big-eared bat, the long-eared bat ...

It also doesn't help that three species feast on blood. Despite their diet, bats are incredibly important to their ecosystems. Some species pollinate plants and eat vast numbers of insects, helping to ...

The return of the bats has sent the fruit bill soaring, with their high metabolism requiring a weekly diet of 98 apples, 84 bananas, 35 pears, 28 tomatoes, 14 honeydew melons, seven mangoes, 47 ...

Cornell researcher Raina Plowright and her team observed that when bats in Australia lost access to their habitat and natural ...