From fleas to mosquitoes, there's no shortage of organisms we like to consider pests – and, not surprisingly, the majority ...

Birds, bats, and bugs all have one thing in common: flight. But does taking to the skies give animals an unfair edge? Let’s dive into the strengths and weaknesses of flying builds and see how they ...

Texas is the "battiest" state, home to 32 of the country's 47 bat species—and in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, nowhere may ...

This is the second rabid bat detected in Cedar Park over the past week, and the third to be discovered in Cedar Park this ...

Scientists have found a way to sample DNA out of the air on a large scale — making it possible to one day track the health ...

Sonar, originally SONAR, an acronym for SOund Navigation And Ranging, allows animals (or man-made devices like submarines) to ...

Bats harbor viral human pathogens without getting sick. A new cell line could open doors to new therapies based on these ...

Bats’ In-Flight Beverage Service: The animals are not only masters of aerodynamic flight — they’re skillful at multitasking while flying, too. A Macabre Fashion Sense: Carnivorous ...

to bats that weigh around 40 grams, lighter than a newborn kitten. The goal was crafting a device adding only four grams to the flying animal’s weight, a little less than a nickel. Researchers ...

Some of them are even cute. “I will take any opportunity I get to talk about bats or dispel myths about them,” said Doty, who uses her animal physiology background to research how bats interact with ...

Bats — the only flying mammals — are suspected or known reservoirs for a horde of deadly viruses, including rabies, Ebola, Marburg and SARS-related viruses, which circulate in horseshoe bats ...

Viruses carried by the world’s only flying mammals, bats, have infected people. In the past decades a series of viral attackers—many of them deadly—have been found in or linked to bats ...