The abrupt termination comes after the research drew President Trump’s attention for its ties to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak speaks with The Scientist about how pathogens like 2019-nCoV jump species, and how to head off the next pandemic.

Bats are infected with the microbe that causes white-nose syndrome, but the disease itself has not shown up.

Bats move their ears fast to create frequency shifts in echoes that can give them more information about their prey targets or the surroundings they are navigating through.

Freshwater fish suffer from low levels of oxygen in the country’s rivers, while bats are unable to survive the extreme air temperatures.

Menglà virus, detected in bats in China, infects cells through the same host receptor targeted by the deadly pathogens.

Moths’ scales vibrate in the frequency range of bats’ echolocation calls, perhaps helping the insects to avoid predation.

The Bombali Ebola virus was identified in bats in Sierra Leone, and there’s no evidence that it has infected people or causes human disease.

The bat version of the STING protein helps dampen the mammals' immune response to infection, researchers have found.