Scientists compared the different kinds of coronaviruses living in 36 bat species from the western Indian Ocean and nearby areas of Africa. They found that different groups of bats have their own ...

COVID-19 is concerning, said Quirk, the bat rehabilitator, as she held a cranky, female big brown bat, while feeding it wriggling mealworms with a pair of tweezers.

Coronaviruses have been evolving in bats for thousands or millions of years. They have moved into people very recently — perhaps as recently as last year in the case of SARS-CoV-2, ...

Exploring the DNA of bats to understand some of their "extraordinary" characteristics, like how they avoid viral infections, could help us beat the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the authors of a ...

"If bats carrying around 100 coronaviruses expanded into a new area due to climate change, then it would seem likely that this increases, rather than decreases, ...

Bats’ role in transferring the virus that causes COVID-19 is under intense scrutiny. “A species of Horseshoe Bat is currently the principal suspect,” explained the World Bank in a recent ...

H. Zhou et al. Identification of novel bat coronaviruses sheds light on the evolutionary origins of SARS-CoV-2 and related viruses. bioRxiv.org. March 8, 2021. doi: 10.1101/2021.03.08.434390.

"CDC is aware of a publication about a new bat coronavirus, but there is no reason to believe it currently poses a concern to public health," the agency said in a statement.

Scientists have been batting around theories about what animals may sparked the deadly new coronavirus, including snakes – but a new study suggests that bats were the most likely hosts.

A new coronavirus discovered in bats in Brazil has been found to share similarities with the deadly Mers virus but its risk to humans remains unclear, scientists say. Researchers from São Paulo ...

Researchers have now discovered six additional coronaviruses in Myanmar-based bats. The research, published in PLOS ONE, notes that the viruses were discovered between 2016 and 2018, ...

Austin's most famous animal, the Mexican free-tailed bat, can get COVID-19, but the city's iconic mascot does not appear to be able to get sick from it or spread it to humans, according to a study ...