Researchers in Uganda have discovered a complex network of animals feeding on bats infected with Marburg virus, capturing startling footage of potential spillover risks for the first time.

A rat attacks a bat as it flies by in this still image from a video that researchers captured. Gloza-Rausch, F. et al. Global Ecology and Conservation 2025, Knörnschild Lab, Museum für Naturkunde ...

SAN ANTONIO – One by one, they emerge, and as the sun sets, they’re on a mission. The Bracken Cave Preserve north of San Antonio is home to an estimated 20 million Mexican Free-tailed bats that are ...

New research in social bats raises the intriguing possibility that evolution can program the brain’s “place cells,” which are typically associated with location, to encode all kinds of environmental ...

Texas is a huge state with over 800 different types of habitats for local wildlife, including tons of bats. Thirty-two species of bats call Texas their home, which makes up a large portion of the ...

Vienna, Austria: Researchers have found that nerve cells in the hippocampus region of the brain encode complex information on numerous characteristics of other individuals in the same social group.