Bats are incredibly diverse animals: They can climb onto other animals to drink their blood, pluck insects from leaves or ...
Convergent evolution—where distinct species independently evolve similar traits or functions, such as the wings of birds and ...
New research has found that, unlike birds, the evolution of bats' wings and legs is tightly coupled, which may have prevented them from filling as many ecological niches as birds. New Cornell ...
MAMM copy 39088019947282 purchased with Adopt-a-Book Funds. Contents An introduction to island bats / Theodore H. Fleming and Paul A. Racey -- Evolution of island bats -- New perspectives on the ...
Phylogenies, fossils and functional genes : the evolution of echolocation in bats / Emma C. Teeling, Serena Dool and Mark Springer -- Systematics and paleobiogeography of early bats / Thierry Smith ..
Bats pollinate plants and control insects but also transmit diseases to humans. Researchers investigate ways to prevent viral ...
Horseshoe bats are the primary host for the ancestor of the viruses that caused both the 2002 SARS outbreak and the COVID-19 pandemic, but a new study suggests that the wildlife trade transported the ...
ITHACA, N.Y. – New Cornell University research has found that, unlike birds, the evolution of bats’ wings and legs is tightly coupled, which may have prevented them from filling as many ecological ...