Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fruit bats have honed their sweet tooth through adaptive evolution. Keith Rose/iStock via Getty Images Plus People around the ...

A high-sugar diet is bad news for humans, leading to diabetes, obesity and even cancer. Yet fruit bats survive and even thrive by eating up to twice their body weight in sugary fruit every day. Now, ...

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A high-sugar diet is bad news for humans, leading to diabetes, obesity and even cancer. Yet fruit bats survive and even thrive by eating up to twice their body weight in sugary fruit every day.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The closeup image of Malayan flying fox (Pteropus vampyrus). a southeast Asian species of megabat, primarily feeds on flowers, ...

Zookeepers have been hand-raising one of the new additions, whose mother died just weeks after giving birth Three endangered bat babies are now calling the Oregon Zoo home. On Thursday, the West Coast ...

Despite their excellent vision, one city-dwelling colony of fruit bats echolocates during broad daylight — completely contrary to what experts expected. Bats that are active during the day are unusual ...

Scientists have found another piece in the puzzle of how echolocation evolved in bats, moving closer to solving a decades-long evolutionary mystery. All bats — apart from the fruit bats of the family ...