A high-sugar diet is bad news for humans, leading to diabetes, obesity and even cancer. Yet fruit bats survive and even thrive by eating up to twice their body weight in sugary fruit every day. Now, ...

Fruit bats in Roatan, like many other places, are known to be attracted to sweet substances. If you place a bowl of sugar water outside at night, you may indeed observe these bats coming to drink.

Utah hosts just 18 species of bats, however, Kruger National Park in South Africa boasts many more. It is unclear whether ...

Fruit bats generate more diverse antibodies than mice, but overall have a weaker antibody response, according to a new study published September 24 in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Dan ...

This field season, for instance, one research group is studying the natural ability of fruit bats and nectar bats to comfortably feast on large quantities of sugar — amounts that would put a ...

Two brutes — including one who was busted for a separate assault last month — beat a longtime Bronx fruit vendor and father of three to death with a baseball bat in a “cold-hearted ...

Bats are known as natural hosts for highly pathogenic viruses such as MERS- and SARS-related coronaviruses, as well as the ...

While he and his father, Walt Hemmerling, were taking the family’s miniature Doberman Sierra on an afternoon stroll in Yorba Linda this spring, they saw trees bursting with fruit that spilled ...

One morning at the Unitarian Fellowship meeting my friend Kim mentioned that the big kapok tree by her place nearby was in ...

A photograph of a Jamaican Fruit Bat in flight. Fruit bats generate more diverse antibodies than mice, but overall have a weaker antibody response, according to a new study published September 24 ...

Fruit bats generate more diverse antibodies than mice, but overall have a weaker antibody response, according to a new study. Fruit bats generate more diverse antibodies than mice, but overall ...