Bats and birds showcase a fascinating contrast in their evolutionary paths, with recent research revealing bats' wings and legs evolve in unison, limiting their ecological roles compared to birds, ...

Convergent evolution is responsible for the wings of the bat, the bird, and the pterodactyl. In each case, the forelimbs of these vertebrates morphed over time into wings, but they did so ...

Bats and birds, although both masters of the sky, follow distinct evolutionary paths. A recent study highlights a key ...

These were found in areas involved in immune response, viral defence, and both lipid and vitamin metabolism, suggesting they have played a key role in the evolution of the bat's specialised diet.

a group of researchers investigated the evolution, cross-species transmission, and dispersal of bat coronaviruses (CoVs) in China, identified hotspots of evolutionary diversity, and traced the ...

Such changes in the ways moths and bats try to get the better of each other is an example of co-evolution, and it is still going on today as they battle for survival in the night skies around the ...

Biologists have found that evolution has provided moths with a variety of ways to evade bat sonar. Some have noise-canceling wings that don’t reflect the bat’s sound pulses. Others can hear ...

How this interplay between sensory organs and the developing skull plays out during the evolution of sensory diversity ... within the ecologically diverse bat super-family Noctilionoidea.

It’s a craft brewing-style evolution, with young bat makers shaking up an industry that’s long been dominated by traditional ...