A recent study published in Nature Communications screened for coronaviruses (CoVs) in 16 native species of bats in the United Kingdom (UK). Study: Genomic screening of 16 UK native bat species ...

The Bug Parc in Lenwade discovered a rare Natterer’s bat while creating a conservation area in its car park. The midge-munching mammals are among the most secretive of the UK’s 19 bat species, often ...

For more than two decades, researchers knew of just a single, male individual of the greater mouse-eared bat that would repeatedly hibernate in an unused railway tunnel in Sussex, U.K. This male bat ...

A bat species so rare it numbers fewer than 1,000 across the UK has been found in record numbers at a Devon nature reserve – with conservationists hailing the discovery as a “fantastic” breakthrough.

"These bats will almost certainly have harbored this virus for a very long time - probably many thousands of years. We didn't know about it before because this is the first time that such tests have ...