Around the time that bat ancestors evolved powered flight, their genomes picked up immune adaptations that can quell viral ...

Bats in the noctilionoid group, like Darwin’s finches, have evolved an impressive variety of jaw and tooth adaptations to ...

New research from the University of St Andrews has shown that bats can tolerate coronaviruses and other viruses without ...

Bats have been found to evolve into bigger sizes in exactly the same way in separate locations, in a very rare example of ...

Bats carry viral pathogens that typically do not lead to severe disease in the bats themselves but can be lethal to humans. Adaptations in certain immune genes might contribute to this resistance.

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a group of researchers investigated the evolution, cross-species transmission, and dispersal of bat coronaviruses (CoVs) in China, identified hotspots of evolutionary diversity, and traced the ...

Bats can tolerate bugs such as coronavirus without becoming ill or showing symptoms, Scotish researchers have found.

How this interplay between sensory organs and the developing skull plays out during the evolution of sensory diversity ... within the ecologically diverse bat super-family Noctilionoidea.