Bats – the world’s only flying mammals and the only group of mammals that are indigenous to Dominica.    Yes, the agouti, the wild pig, and the mannikou (opossum) were introduced to the Nature Isle by ...

SIR Gareth Southgate has won his fight to convert a dilapidated barn at his countryside mansion into a plush gym — provided ...

Researchers may have stumbled upon 'ground zero' for a deadly virus that kills nine in ten patients infected with it.

Discovery of many predators feeding on bats may be a ‘Rosetta Stone’ for understanding how diseases spread between animals, researchers hope ...

Nipah virus was first identified in 1998 during an outbreak among pig farmers in Malaysia. Later, pteropus bat populations have been identified as its primary reservoir. How do factors like ecological ...

Limestone karst is like an island. Each rocky formation rises distinctly out of the surrounding landscape. Over time, an array of highly specialized species, each adapted to that particular landform’s ...

She had spent the morning checking bat boxes, wisps of greenery getting tangled in her wiry grey locks. So far, she had come up short on her annual survey.Then she let out a cry: "Oh, we have bats!” ...

A team of National Geographic Explorers is studying how these bats developed their architectural expertise—while cataloguing ...

A yellow-headed water monitor lizard in Cagayan de Oro catches Doc Ferds Recio's attention for its unusually gentle behavior—allowing him to hold it up close. Meanwhile, in Cagayan, a public school ...

Bats get bad press. Short-sighted and cave-dwelling, they generally make the news only when carrying disease, transfiguring into vampires, or else lending their name to paranoiac military commanders ...