Researchers and citizen scientists took samples of environmental DNA from saliva on backyard hummingbird feeders and agave ...

Horseshoe Bay Cave, located under Frank E. Murphy Park in Egg Harbor, stretches over 3,103 feet, having been carved into the ...

The bat species hails from France and was considered to be endangered. The post Loneliest bat finally finds mate in time for ...

By Kristine Sabillo For more than two decades, researchers knew of just a single, male individual of the greater mouse-eared ...

Researchers analyzed saliva the nocturnal mammals leave behind when sipping nectar from plants and residential hummingbird ...

A study on bat genomes, involving Texas Tech University, discovered genetic adaptations that help bats resist viral ...

Bats, often unfairly linked to the onset of COVID-19, face a wave of skepticism that threatens not only their innocent existence but also their already declining populations. The greater horseshoe bat ...

This indicates that bats have developed a strong immune system since their ancestral stages. In particular, the Greater Horseshoe Bat and Hipposideridae bats carried variations of the ISG15 gene.

Bats — the only flying mammals — are suspected or known reservoirs for a horde of deadly viruses, including rabies, Ebola, Marburg and SARS-related viruses, which circulate in horseshoe bats ...

Morales et al. found that, in rhinolophid (horseshoe) and hipposiderid (Old World leaf-nosed) bats — which carry coronaviruses closely related to SARS-CoV-2 — the ISG15 protein is missing a ...

according to bat experts. The greater mouse-eared bat (Myotis myotis) was declared extinct in 1992, before a single male was found in a disused railway tunnel in West Sussex in 2002 and another in ...