Costly virus hunts are ineffective in protecting public health and have unfairly harmed the historically excellent safety record of bats as beneficial neighbors.

It’s the first time the deadly pathogen has been found in West Africa.

Bats use both echolocation and vision to avoid eating unpleasant fireflies.

Scientists have found a previously unknown virus in Myanmar.

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

This hammer-headed fruit bat is wearing a GPS tracker deployed by researchers with the Wildlife Conservation Society.

The Texas Tech University professor also investigated the effects of the Chernobyl disaster on surrounding wildlife.

The virus caused an outbreak that began in Guangdong Province and left nearly 25,000 piglets dead. 

Barbastelle bats trick moths with muffled echolocation calls.