Bats

The footage, said to have been taken from inside a Wuhan lab, was unearthed by a team of self-described "underground detectives" who say they are dedicated to exposing the origins of COVID-19.

Tova Ferris told Newsweek she had never seen "anything like this" before.

"Could a Chinese lab worker have gotten infected or inadvertent leakage have touched off the outbreak in Wuhan?" the Washington Post editorial board asked.

I have worked with bats in disease hotspots in Southeast Asia, Western Asia, and Eastern Africa. These hotspots can facilitate the transmission of a pathogen into humans, potentially sparking the next pandemic.

Rabies is a fatal but preventable viral disease that infects the central nervous system of mammals.

"People were routinely exposed to bats through guano harvesting, religious practices, and ecotourism," the authors wrote in the study.

Both species have been linked to the Sars-CoV-2 virus.

These long-term cooperative relationships between unrelated bats appear to be similar in form and function to human friendships.

Robber crabs—also known as coconut crabs—are the largest terrestrial invertebrates in the world

"It just seems to me that every bat in Australia is now in Ingham," Raymon Jayo, mayor of Hinchinbrook, said.

Populations appeared to benefit from the flames or, more specifically, the conditions they created.

The woman felt something strike her arm, but didn't know what it was until she got home.

The flying mammals can survive on a meal that almost no other mammal can.

Nothing lasts forever, but some things, like bats, endure.

The flight speed of these bats has posed difficulties for researchers wishing to study them.

"I still have her photo in my wallet."

The bat's teeth and bones were three times the size of today's average bat.

Iran's sand fox manages temperatures as high as 159 degrees Fahrenheit in the Lut desert.

The future of warfare is here and it's all about bats.

Bats are excellent for the environment. Just don't touch them.

eBay has hundreds of listings for taxidermy bats, and Etsy has nearly a thousand.

Just in time for World Rabies Day!

Bats, sharks, vultures, wolves and coyotes are all more popular than in the 1970s.

Very bad news for bats.

About 40 percent of pollinators like bees and butterflies are at risk, according to a UN-issued report.

The fungus doesn't appear to be spreading as rapidly there as it has in the U.S., however.

The creature has a strange-looking, horseshoe-shaped structure on its face.

This seems to be a primitive form of echolocation.

The global health community is responding to the death of a health care worker from the Marburg virus, a highly infectious disease that is "clinically similar" to Ebola