BANGKOK (Reuters) - Researchers in Thailand began collecting samples from horseshoe bats to test them for coronavirus amid concerns they may pose a threat to local residents, a government statement ...

Julius Nziza still remembers the moment vividly. Just before dawn on a chilly January morning in 2019, he and his team gently extracted a tiny brown bat from a net purposely strung to catch the ...

A bat with big ears, a horseshoe-shaped nose and a seemingly smushed face hidden behind flaps of skin that was recently discovered in Rwanda is a member of a "lost species" not seen in 40 years, ...

A virus called Khosta-2, found in Russian horseshoe bats, is capable of using ACE2—the same receptor used by SARS-CoV-2—to enter human cells, researchers have found. Interestingly, the virus is ...

RaTG13 is the name, rank and serial number of an individual horseshoe bat of the species Rhinolophus affinis, or rather of a sample of its feces collected in 2013 in a cave in Yunnan, China. The ...

Horseshoe bats (Rhinolophus sp.) are known reservoirs of zoonotic coronaviruses (CoVs). Over the last twenty years, viruses thought to have originated from these bats have given rise to two severe ...

For the first time in 40 years, researchers caught a Hill’s horseshoe bat, confirming that the bat population still clings to life in Rwanda’s Nyungwe National Park, a highly biodiverse area ...