The research is the largest combined bat genome and fossil study yet.

A bat that weighs roughly as much as a house mouse has turned up alive 50 years after it was first tagged, and scientists now think its genes hold clues to why it barely ages and almost never develops ...

A Tennessee bottlebrush crayfish in a West Virginia university collection has taken the top spot in a new ranking of North ...

The flying mammals likely arose 65 million years ago in Europe, before spreading to Africa and then the rest of the world, ...

Published today in Nature, an international team of 137 researchers from 64 countries, working together as part of the Bat1K ...

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Long-lived bats appear to combine powerful immune defenses with unusual strategies for eliminating damaged cells, potentially helping them avoid cancer and disease for decades. Researchers hope these ...

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a health advisory to doctors about increased rabies in animals and human exposures nationwide this summer, saying it received 17% more ...