From the bumblebee bat to the Baluchistan pygmy jerboa, here are eight of the world's smallest mammals who thrive in a world ...

The structure of the wing membrane, the arrangement of the bones supporting it, and the positioning of the muscles provide the bat with the lightness and maneuverability necessary for catching insects ...

Here are eight tiny tyne creatures known as the smallest mammals of the earth. At only 1.3g, the extinct B. vanhouteni is believed to be the smallest mammal that ever lived. This tiny, shrew-like ...

If you thought the fastest mammal on the planet was the cheetah, you’d (surprisingly) be mistaken. That title goes to the ...

The bat virus, referred to as HKU5-CoV-2, uses the same human receptor as SARS-CoV-2, a strain of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. The newly discovered bat strain can infect cells by binding ...

Research suggests that forest management efforts are supporting healthy bat populations in the Southeast, even amidst the ...

The discovery of a new bat coronavirus in China has sparked concerns about another pandemic. The virus, named HKU5-CoV-2, is similar to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in that it ...

Winter in the South can bring about a sharp change in conditions that impact forests and their many inhabitants. However, new ...

A newly discovered bat coronavirus, HKU5-CoV-2 ... The virus might first infect another animal (like a mammal) before jumping to humans, similar to how some past coronaviruses spread.

A Chinese team has found a new bat coronavirus that carries the risk of animal-to-human transmission because it uses the same human receptor as the virus that causes Covid-19. The study was led by ...

“We mostly think about plant signaling as targeting sight and smell, but here these plants are not so much giving a ‘shout out’ but a ‘shout back’ to the bats to come on over,” Rohan Clarke, an ...