GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KJCT) - Fruit Bat is a two-and-a-half-month-old blind kitten who is ready for his forever home. The ...

Scientists discovered 22 new viruses in bats from Yunnan province, China, raising serious concerns among public health and virology experts. Among these, two newly identified henipaviruses alarmed ...

Twenty new viruses have been discovered within bats in China, "raising urgent concerns" that these diseases might spill over ...

Against all odds, bats are surprisingly long-lived and rarely develop tumors. Understanding why could unlock new cancer ...

Specifically, little brown bats carry two copies of the gene, and have high p53 activity, which can get rid of cancer cells during apoptosis, a biological process that eliminates unwanted cells.

Katelyn Campbell is filming a video of a caretaker grabbing an elderly Jamaican Fruit Bat from a pouch. Like people, bats bald with age. Sometimes the skin can become irritated/itchy, so we apply ...

Bat poop coffee might be surpassing kopi luwak (the controversial civet poop coffee) in popularity among adventurous gastronomes and coffee connoisseurs. Once eaten by bats, coffee cherries ...

A photograph of a Jamaican Fruit Bat in flight. Fruit bats generate more diverse antibodies than mice, but overall have a weaker antibody response, according to a new study published September 24 ...

We found Jamaican fruit bats have more insulin-producing and glucagon-producing cells than big brown bats, along with regulatory DNA that primes fruit bat pancreatic cells to initiate the ...

A chance discovery In Jamaica doing research on nectar and fruit-eating bats, Oelbaum says the Jamaican flower bat was on his radar, but he didn’t have high hopes of finding them. The first location, ...