New research from the University of St Andrews has shown that bats can tolerate coronaviruses and other viruses without ...

Yet until recently, scientists didn’t fully understand why bats are so good at harboring pathogens that don’t seem to harm ...

Bats harbor many viruses that can spill over into humans, including Marburg, Ebola, and famously SARS-CoV-2. But while these ...

University of Saskatchewan graduate student Victoria Gonzalez can be found working in one of the level 2 laboratories at the ...

Humans don't have hollow bones like birds do, so how big would our wings have to be to lift us off the ground?

Bats in the noctilionoid group, like Darwin’s finches, have evolved an impressive variety of jaw and tooth adaptations to ...

However, bats can hang upside down much more easily than humans can because of the way bats' muscles, tendons and talons have evolved. "When a bat finds a place to roost, it contracts muscles ...

Around the time that bat ancestors evolved powered flight, their genomes picked up immune adaptations that can quell viral ...

Ten of the collected bats had such tags. None of the bats herein included were associated with any known human biting incident. Such specimens were handled separately by the Diagnostic ...

Bats carry viral pathogens that typically do not lead to severe disease in the bats themselves but can be lethal to humans. Adaptations in certain immune genes might contribute to this resistance.