Bats have a notorious reputation as disease-spreaders—these fuzzy, winged creatures are said to be the source of more viral threats than any other mammal on Earth. Bats have been pinpointed as the ...

Raisin is a Jamaican fruit bat who has defied the odds her entire life. From terrible beginnings as a pup in a lab, she’s now an elderly resident at Bat World Sanctuary, living out her retirement to ...

Source: Photo by Oasalehm, via Wikimedia Commons. Distributed under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license. In the wild, vampire bats form long-lasting social relationships with some of the individuals with whom they ...

The first Sunday of every month, you can join researchers from the Smithsonian Bat Lab to get a close-up look at Panama’s bats Olivia Milloway Victoria Flores and Sara Vásquez inspect a bat at Bat ...

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University of Winnipeg Willis Bat Lab researchers studying colonies across Manitoba, northwestern Ontario But Manitoba's bats are not only generally harmless and important players in the ecological ...

Working in a laboratory in Paris, scientists gave a close relative of the Covid virus the chance to evolve to be more like its cousin. By Carl Zimmer In mid-2020, a team of scientists catching bats in ...