Global Bat1K research combines genomes and fossils to redraw the bat family tree, tracing the origins of flight, echolocation ...

A huge genomic and fossil study suggests bats first evolved in Europe around 65 to 60 million years ago before spreading ...

WASHINGTON — Bats are critical players in global ecosystems, pollinating plants, dispersing seeds and eating huge numbers of insects. One of only three lineages of flying vertebrates in Earth's ...

Laurel Yohe, Ph.D., assistant professor of bioinformatics at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, is among the co-authors of a landmark study of bat genomes published this week in Nature.

WASHINGTON, Sept 24 (Reuters) - Bats are critical players in global ecosystems, pollinating plants, dispersing seeds and eating huge numbers of insects. One of only three lineages of flying ...

The groundbreaking study, which rewrites the world's only flying mammals' family tree, contradicts long-held assumptions that the species arose in Asia, Africa or North America. Scientists led by ...

A landmark collection of bat genomes reveals fresh clues about the evolution of one of the world’s most unusual groups of mammals. The evolution of flight and the use of echolocation to forage at ...

A dead bat found near a popular visitor destination in Yosemite National Park tested positive for rabies, but the National Park Service didn’t alert the public until more than three months after the ...

Tim Fang is a digital producer at CBS Bay Area. A Bay Area native, Tim has been a part of the CBS Bay Area newsroom for more than two decades and joined the digital staff in 2006. Officials at ...

As the nation approaches the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, National Geographic is giving the public a new way to revisit one of the most consequential days in American history. The brand ...