A bat with big ears, a horseshoe-shaped nose and a seemingly smushed face hidden behind flaps of skin that was recently discovered in Rwanda is a member of a "lost species" not seen in 40 years ...

In addition to preventing a Bourret’s horseshoe bat, Rhinolophus paradoxolophus, from winning beauty contests, convoluted face folding actually has an important job, Müller says.

Evidence suggests the coronavirus originated from bats in Asia. But some researchers say that, here in North America, bats face the opposite risk — of being infected by human carriers.

A wrinkle-faced bat, Centurio senex, native to Latin America. The strangely intricate wrinkles and grooves around its nostrils help shape bat sonar, a new study found.

What a face! Scientists learn how bats channel their ... The researchers employed X-ray scans to generate three-dimensional computer models of the noseleaves of the rufous horseshoe bat, ...

A building is being restored in West Sussex for what is thought to be the first breeding colony of a species of rare bat in the county. Britain's population of greater horseshoe bats was, until ...

Scientists rediscovered a "lost species" of bat that had not been seen in 40 years. The Hill's horseshoe bat, thought to be extinct, was found in 2019 in Rwanda.

Tom Kitching, bat conservation officer for the VWT, said the site was the home of the first population of the greater horseshoe bat in Sussex, and was the only breeding roost.