What is lyssavirus? The deadly ‘bat rabies’ that’s been found in the UK - ANALYSIS: Vinod Balasubramaniam investigates after ...

Scientists in China have raised "urgent concerns" after discovering at least 20 never-before-seen viruses in bats that live ...

A man in his 50s has died from lyssavirus in New South Wales after being bitten by a bat several months ago. ...

Pteropus bats are the main reservoir host of the virus, but the spatial and temporal dynamics of viral transmission in bats are unclear.

Reporting from San Diego -- Pteropus rodricensis was hanging upside down, doing some squeaking. That’s mostly his daily routine, with occasional breaks to eat slices of fruit.

image: Roosting Rodrigue's fruit bat (Pteropus rodricensis), one of the studied species. Note the large frontally positioned eyes. view more Credit: Dana LeBlanc, Lubee Bat Center, Gainesville, Fla.

Widespread deforestation is causing severe population decline in the little-known Livingstone’s fruit bat (Pteropus livingstonii), a new study has found. The rare bat is found only on two small ...

Three bat species flock to Mantawalu Daka island to roost: the gray flying fox (Pteropus griseus), considered vulnerable; Sulawesi flying fox (Acerodon celebensis), also vulnerable; and the black ...

The Mortlock Islands flying fox, a large, breadfruit-eating bat native to a few remote and tiny Pacific islands, has long been regarded as one of the world's least studied bats. Today researchers ...

Kozhikode: Over the past year, four Nipah infections were reported in Malappuram, including the suspected death of an 18-year ...

Male bats perform oral sex on females, apparently to make sex last longer, researchers say. These findings, the first discovery of male-to-female oral sex in bats, match prior studies revealing ...

When the fruit bat Pteropus allenorum was finally described by scientists, it was already extinct. One specimen of the bat was shot in Samoa in 1856, skinned, stored in alcohol, and shipped to the ...