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HOUSTON, United States -- It was a rescue worthy of Batman. A wave of frigid air triggered "hypothermic shock" in a colony of bats clinging to their roost beneath a bridge in Houston, a sprawling city in Texas. Nearly frozen, the bats began losing their grip and falling to the pavement from nine...

What was once a subject of a Reddit thread has been confirmed by mammal researchers recently: the famed Mottle-winged Flying Fox (Desmalopex leucopterus) indeed exists in the Masungi landscape, the Masungi Georeserve said Sunday, August 21. Luzon-endemic Mottle-winged Flying Fox (Photo by Masungi...

Four illegal wildlife poachers were arrested after yielding more than 6,000 Wrinkle-lipped bats (Chaerephon plicatus)—some of them already dead—in an operation conducted by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources and other agencies in San Miguel, Bulacan, the agency...

GENEVA (AFP) –  An international expert mission to Wuhan concluded in a report seen Monday, March 29, that COVID-19 likely first passed to humans from a bat through an intermediary animal, with investigators all but ruling out a laboratory leak. The intermediate host hypothesis was deemed...