Anyone with a pool knows how easily animals can become stuck swimming in circles. It’s not uncommon to find insects, mice, ...

Every day, our brain takes countless fleeting experiences—from walks on the beach to presentations at work—and transforms ...

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

Others propose fruit bats never acquired this trait in the first place and that it evolved several times in different bat groups. Illustrations by Megumi Ogasawara, Author provided (no reuse) ...

Now, to balance things off, a new paper describes cunnilingus among another fruit bat species—the Indian flying fox. In the summers of 2010 and 2011, Jayabalan Maruthupandian and Ganapathy ...

Bat researchers are divided over how many times echolocation evolved. Some think that it evolved once in the common ancestor of all bats, and was then lost in the fruit bats.

Fruit Bats Are Not 'Blind As A Bat' Date: June 16, 2007 Source: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Summary: The retinas of most mammals contain two types of photoreceptor cells, the cones for daylight vision ...

And fruit bat kidneys had adapted to ensure that vital electrolytes would be retained from their watery meals. “Even small changes, to single letters of DNA, make this diet viable for fruit bats,” ...

Of the total bat species in the Philippines, 26 are from the Pteropodidae family known as fruit bats or flying foxes; 17 of these are endemic to the country. Eleven of the 12 threatened species ...

Some bats like candy. Well, not the kind of candy you buy in a sweets shop. Rather, they like fruit, which is rich in sugar. “We call it nature’s candy,” says Wei Gordon, a biologist at ...