A study published in the journal Nature has analyzed 5,000 samples of a fungus that is responsible for the largest recorded ...

Learn how bed bugs became our oldest known pest as they co-evolved with humans, starting with our Neanderthal ancestors.

Discover how learning more about how bats harbor viruses and infections without becoming ill could help keep humans healthy, ...

Ever since a few enterprising bed bugs hopped off a bat and attached themselves to a Neanderthal walking out of a cave 60,000 ...

Bats are known as natural hosts for highly pathogenic viruses such as MERS- and SARS-related coronaviruses, as well as the ...

They have been bugging people since they hopped off a bat and attached themselves to a Neanderthal around 60,000 years ago.

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 ...

Get to know the bat-eared fox, an insect-eating creature found in the grasslands and savannas of Africa (and also the ...

First one, then a few more, then hundreds of the creatures lifted off as the sun set until, she said, there was “a river of bats in the sky.” The next night Swartz, now a professor of biology ...

The Bat-a-thon is now in its sixteenth year ... "There's nothing like this event anywhere else in the world." Jessica Montoya, a biology graduate student at the University of Illinois at Chicago ...

Bats have a bad reputation, but they deserve better. The flying mammals are nature’s pest control, swooping over America’s farmland every night to feast on swarms of insects that would ...