The vesper bats are the largest and best-known common family of bats. Scientists wanted to get at the root cause of this diversity by taking advantage of two vesper bat species whose genomes have ...

If you've ever seen a bat flying around at sunset, chances are good it was a vesper bat. They're the biggest bat family, made up of 500 species, found on every continent except Antarctica. And most of ...

Climate change is most likely behind the spread of a type of vesper bat across Europe over the last four decades. Kuhl's pipistrelle has extended its range by nearly 400 percent, according to a new ...

An international research team led by Professor Petr Koube and Darina Koubínová has discovered five new species of vesper bats during a series of expeditions to Senegal’s Niokolo-Koba National Park.

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The vesper bats are the largest and best-known common family of bats, with more than 400 species spread across the globe, ranking second among mammals in species diversity. Authors Ray et al., wanted ...