Raisin is a Jamaican fruit bat who has defied the odds her entire life. From terrible beginnings as a pup in a lab, she’s now an elderly resident at Bat World Sanctuary, living out her retirement to ...

Bats have a notorious reputation as disease-spreaders—these fuzzy, winged creatures are said to be the source of more viral threats than any other mammal on Earth. Bats have been pinpointed as the ...

Evidence that includes newly unearthed Chinese government video continues to mount indicating the Wuhan Institute of Virology studied live bats in its lab, despite longtime lab collaborator Peter ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A video purportedly taken inside a Wuhan lab and appearing to show bats ...

Scientists at the Chinese lab eyed as a possible source of the coronavirus pandemic were previously filmed getting bitten and spattered with blood while handling bats without protection, according to ...

Scientists fed Aedes aegypti mosquitoes blood laced with weakened rabies and Nipah viruses, then let those insects bite bats and mice in a controlled lab setting. The animals developed neutralizing ...