When that didn’t work out, she applied for a position studying bat evolution. Teeling has never looked back. “Within a month of deeply studying the biology of bats, I was completely hooked,” she ...

This fact sheet attempts to dispel the fears and answer some of the questions most often asked of the National Museum of Natural History by presenting some general facts about the biology and natural ...

Winter in the South can bring about a sharp change in conditions that impact forests and their many inhabitants. However, new ...

While biologists often turn to well-established animal models such as mice, rats, flies, or worms to make inferences about human biology, bats are starting to gain traction as experimental models, ...

AB: The book is divided into three parts. The first two parts are focused on various aspects of bat biology and introduce the reader to the diversity of bats—how they use echolocation to get ...

Scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China have discovered a new lineage of a coronavirus in bats that can enter human cells in a similar fashion as SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid ...

Robert James Baker, a renowned mammologist who studied the biology of bats and the effects of radiation contamination on animals, passed away last week (March 30). He was 75. Baker was born in 1942 in ...

Discover a new species of leaf-nosed bat, Hipposideros srilankaensis, in Sri Lanka with unique features and genetic analysis.