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Nap Champions: These 10 animals sleep more than you think

Meet the true kings of rest! From koalas to pythons, these 10 animals spend most of their day asleep. Discover which creatures outnap the rest in the wild snooze league.

This country is hosting a bat beauty contest. 'Hoary Potter' is a contender

All of the featured bats are photographed and named by the agency staff and their names play an important role in the contest.

India's Nipah virus trackers gather samples from bats, fruit

The state is battling its fourth outbreak since 2018 of a virus for which there is no vaccine, and which spreads through contact with the body fluids of infected bats, pigs or people, killing up to 75% of those infected.

New COVID-like virus found in bats could infect humans, resist vaccines: Study

A team led by researchers at Washington State University (WSU), US, found spike proteins from the bat virus, named Khosta-2, can infect human cells and is resistant to both the antibody therapies and blood serum from people vaccinated forS-CoV-2.

Could bats hold the secret to healthy ageing?

The University College Dublin researcher works with the charity Bretagne Vivante to study bats living in rural churches and schools in Brittany, western France.

FANGS and BATS sell-off spooks world stocks

Europe had touched a record high on Monday but its restart was a sea of red as London's FTSE, Frankfurt's DAX and the CAC 40 in Paris all dropped roughly 2%.

How bats carry coronavirus without getting sick decoded: Study

According to the study, published in the journal Scientific Reports, coronaviruses like the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) virus, and the COVID19-causing SARS-CoV-2 virus, are thought to have originated in bats.

'Bats with white-nose fungus may help fight AIDS'

Studying the immunology of bats with white-nose fungus - who sometimes suffer in the same way that humans with AIDS do - could help in the development of treatments for the deadly disease, scientists say.