It's so unique that we need to create a new genus,” Reeder said in a press release. Reeder and her colleagues published their findings this week (April 9) in ZooKeys. Only five of the new bats have ...

Four of the nine species of Adirondack bats belong to the genus Myotis, the mouse-eared bats. The little brown bat is the most abundant of the four, and is the common bat of the region. During the ...

But nearly half of the species in the genus are threatened with extinction, a new analysis finds, putting the genus — which ...

Jing Chen at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China and her colleagues sequenced genetic material collected from bats of the genus Pipistrellus in China in 2014. One of the viruses isolated from ...