Gabon's government on Friday banned the sale and eating of bats and pangolins, which are suspected of sparking the novel coronavirus in China where they are highly prized in traditional medicine. The ...

Given everything that happened with the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s understandable to feel nervous when you hear about a new virus. Now, reports are swirling about a new coronavirus detected in bats ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — A recent study from an international team of researchers, including those from UC San Diego’s School of Medicine, gives new credence to the theory that the COVID-19 pandemic ...

While the scientific community has largely ruled out snakes as being directly involved in the transfer of the virus to humans, research on the role reptiles played in the outbreak has helped ...

The pangolin - an endangered mammal with scales all over its body, and a long tongue that it uses to hunt ants - has now entered the COVID-19 scientific journals because it carries a coronavirus that ...

Brazil's bats are harboring a vast and diverse pool of coronaviruses, a new study finds, including a newly identified strain that may pose a danger to human health in the years to come. Scientists are ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- They fly through the night, sometimes carrying deadly viruses in their bodies, but are still surviving. That's why bats have been such a boon to researchers. Groups like the One ...

New research by the University of Sydney offers important insights into how and when new coronavirus variants arise in bats. Bats are beneficial to our ecosystems and economy but, as habitat ...