A man has died from an "extremely rare" rabies-like infection transmitted by a bat bite, Australian health officials said.

An Australian man has died from an "extremely rare" rabies-like infection transmitted by a bat bite, health officials said ...

A man in his 50s has been hospitalized in critical condition after contracting the Australian bat lyssavirus (ABLV) in New ...

Learning to eavesdrop The new study does not rule out the idea that the mothers of the young bats teach them about frog calls. And a 2022 study found that bats learn navigation from their mothers.

Humans from different cultures speak to their children using a form of speech known as “child-directed speech”, or “baby talk”. Though to us, it may seem natural to communicate directly with our ...

Some bat species live surprisingly long lives for their diminutive size, and they might be able to teach us a thing or two ...

It’s long been a puzzle. Cancer is, statistically speaking, a disease of aging. The longer something lives, the more likely ...

But bats stood out: Some species live the human equivalent of nearly 180 years, yet tumors are almost never seen in wild or captive individuals. This quality makes bats an ideal model for ...

Tiny mammals that weigh less than an ounce should not outlive German shepherds, yet many bats routinely do. Some even clock nearly thirty-five years in the wild, a lifespan that maps to about 180 ...

MERS-Like Coronaviruses May Be Just “A Small Step Away” From Jumping Into Humans Just one mutation in these understudied group of bat viruses and we could be looking at COVID 2.0, experts warn.

Viruses closely related to the deadly MERS coronavirus are lurking in bats and one group, known as HKU5, may be just one mutation away from making the jump to humans. A new study reveals how these ...

A human-sized Labubu figure was sold for 1.08 million yuan (approximately $150,275) at an auction house in Beijing, China, on Tuesday. This set a new record for the trending doll, which is rapidly ...