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Fruit bats earned their name for a pretty obvious reason: their affinity for fruit. Also known as flying foxes, these nocturnal mammals love to chomp down on a variety of different fruits and flowers, ...

Bats hold some of the most jaw-dropping records in the entire animal kingdom, from the world's smallest mammal to creatures ...

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.

Fruit bats in the Republic of the Congo are being tested for zoonotic diseases, including Ebola, in an effort by conservationists and medical researchers to better understand the risk posed by the ...

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. A high ...

Despite their excellent vision, one city-dwelling colony of fruit bats echolocates during broad daylight — completely contrary to what experts expected. Bats that are active during the day are unusual ...

Scientists have found another piece in the puzzle of how echolocation evolved in bats, moving closer to solving a decades-long evolutionary mystery. All bats—apart from the fruit bats of the family ...