This is nesting season for bats which may be why they made it inside the hospital and it could take them about a week to get ...

SCHOOL groups and tourists are visiting a cave with bats that carry Marburg virus, previously flagged as having pandemic ...

She had spent the morning checking bat boxes, wisps of greenery getting tangled in her wiry grey locks. So far, she had come up short on her annual survey.Then she let out a cry: "Oh, we have bats!” ...

This gigantic bat was captured on camera by a man filming his camping trip. He's been missing ever since. Stories like these have been swirling the internet for the past couple of years, with people ...

Researchers in Uganda have discovered a complex network of animals feeding on bats infected with Marburg virus, capturing startling footage of potential spillover risks for the first time.

Discovery of many predators feeding on bats may be a ‘Rosetta Stone’ for understanding how diseases spread between animals, researchers hope ...

The first two months of the year would ordinarily see Ganjar Budi Setiaji hurrying around Plana village’s durian orchard, here in the hilly Javanese district of Banyumas. But on the last Tuesday of ...

Researchers may have stumbled upon 'ground zero' for a deadly virus that kills nine in ten patients infected with it.

If confirmed through DNA testing, this will be only the fourth time an evening bat has been found in Colorado. Experts believe unseasonably warm winter weather may have caused the bat to end up in the ...

This little bat is spending the winter months in the historic mining shafts of Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula. The silver-haired bat is one of the most common bats in forested areas of America. It’s ...

Thirteen miles off the coast of Peru lies a trio of islands with mountainous piles of guano, nicknamed “white gold.” This seabird poop mixed with other waste is such a powerful nitrogen deposit that ...

Researchers in Turkey say they have unearthed archaeological evidence that the Romans used human feces in medical treatments. Although Roman texts described the practice, this is the first time that ...