Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bats have long posed an immunological mystery: They can harbor viruses that cause severe diseases in other animals, including ...

Studying insect-eating bats isn’t easy: they’re tiny, fly at night, and navigate using ultrasonic frequencies far above human hearing range. But experts in India have come up with a potential solution ...

Jamming bats’ echolocation with ultrasound is showing promise in reducing fatalities at wind energy facilities. Wind turbines are a valuable source of renewable energy, but they’re eco-unfriendly in ...

When it comes to viruses, ones from bats are weirdly deadly — at least to humans. The mammals can carry many viruses with the potential to cause serious diseases in people, including rabies, Ebola, ...

Although bats are not as large as other mammals, they are the longest living mammal for their size. Researchers turned to bats to learn more about why they lived so long and if their genetic code ...

Like a skilled pilot switching to instruments in zero visibility, bats possess an innate ability to adapt when their primary navigation system falters. This remarkable discovery by Johns Hopkins ...

Through their association with vampires, general spookiness, and fighting crime in comic books, bats are often misunderstood and even feared—at least by those who cross Nosferatu and Batman. But ...