Australia is famously a place with some of the world’s most dangerous and frightening animals.

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

In northeastern Australia, not far from the coastal city of Cairns, is a place called Tolga Bat Hospital. It is, as its name ...

Reports of new Nipah virus cases in India have raised worries about yet another deadly outbreak. Nipah is a rare virus that ...

Nipah virus (NiV) is a serious infectious disease that periodically causes outbreaks in parts of Asia. 2026 has seen some ...

In addition to anthropogenic risk factors, bats are affected by pests and pathogens like pseudogymnoascus destructans (or ...

In a world still feeling the aftershocks of the COVID-19 pandemic, news of a potential new viral threat can quickly raise alarm. That was the case following reports in India of a recent outbreak of ...

“Bats do not recognize cats as a predator. If people have cats outdoors, they absolutely should not be feeding birds in the same area, and they should not have a bat house anywhere near there either,” ...

The Nipah virus was spotted in India where it infected two people. No cases of the potentially lethal virus have been detected in the United States.

In a world still feeling the aftershocks of the COVID-19 pandemic, news of a potential new viral threat can quickly raise ...

If you enjoy money, tequila and saving the planet, you should also be asking this question. Concerningly, the most recent ...

The virus — called Nipah — kills more than half of the people it infects. Nipah virus, which was named after the village in ...