In the shadows of Python Cave, Uganda, a leopard leaps from a guano mound—formed by bat excrement—and sinks its teeth into a ...

Anyone with a pool knows how easily animals can become stuck swimming in circles. It’s not uncommon to find insects, mice, ...

Scientists in China's Yunnan province have discovered 20 new viruses in bats, including two closely related to the deadly ...

Two newly discovered viruses lurking in bats are dangerously similar to Nipah and Hendra, both of which have caused deadly ...

A man has died after becoming the first in one Australian state to contract this life-threatening illness. NSW Health ...

After reviews of the little fruit bat’s endangered species status in 2009, 2015, and 2019, U.S. Fish and Wildlife recommended that the species be removed from the list because of extinction ...

A man in his 50s from northern New South Wales died after contracting Australian bat lyssavirus, marking the state’s first recorded human fatality from the disease.

A man is critically ill after becoming only the fourth known person in Australia to be diagnosed with a rabies-like bat virus ...

Python Cave is home to as many as 50,000 Egyptian fruit bats, and the predators emerged from the cave with a winged snack, which they either hunted or scavenged, in their mouths.

The first confirmed case of Australian bat lyssavirus (ABLV) has been reported in the state of New South Wales, involving a ...

The deadly bat virus that has claimed the life of a man in northern NSW can lie dormant for months or even years before it becomes active, rapidly progressing then to paralysis, convulsions and death, ...