fruit bat

Bats that experience food shortages due to climate change and habitat loss end up roosting in urban settings, where they shed more of the deadly Hendra virus. 

Preliminary testing indicates that the two people died from the Ebola-like virus, the World Health Organization says.

Contrary to what researchers had assumed, Egyptian fruit bats don’t rely solely on sight to orient themselves as they drink and forage for food in daylight. 

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

A dissection microscope reveals the delicate inner structures of a third-trimester fetal fruit bat (Megachiroptera).