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YOU could call it a batty idea, but bats seem to be more closely related to horses than cows are. Once thought to belong to the same group as primates, bats actually belong to the super-order ...

It's a deadly chain: Bats in Australia harbor a virus called Hendra, which doesn't hurt them but can be passed to horses via urine or feces—and those animals fare far worse. There's a 75% fatality ...

ARGYLE, Texas (AP) - The horse’s eyes are the first indication that he’s a survivor. A spark of fire illuminates their blackness as if his will to live were personified into a flame that could not be ...

Horse owners in the Top End of the Northern Territory are being urged to vaccinate their animals after a bat tested positive for Hendra virus. It is the first confirmed case of Hendra virus in the ...

Not quite 20 years ago, Raina Plowright stood in a forest in Australia's Northern Territory at dusk. She watched as hundreds of thousands of bats called little red flying foxes launched themselves ...

Walking into Jan and David Smeal's horse barn near Turbotville, one doesn't spot anything unusual until they look up into the rafters. There, snuggled together, are numerous little brown bats. "They ...