People around the world eat too much sugar. When the body is unable to process sugar effectively, leading to excess glucose in the blood, this can result in diabetes. According to the World Health ...

This release is also available in German. The retinas of most mammals contain two types of photoreceptor cells, the cones for daylight vision and colour vision, and the more sensitive rods for night ...

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, ...

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 ...

Anyone with a pool knows how easily animals can become stuck swimming in circles. It’s not uncommon to find insects, mice, and even frogs floating around the deep end. Bats are less commonly found in ...

A zoo in the U.K. has captured a rare spectacle on camera – the birth of the rarest fruit bat in the world. The Jersey Zoo, located on the island of Jersey in the English Channel, captured the moment ...

Zookeepers have been hand-raising one of the new additions, whose mother died just weeks after giving birth Nicholas Rice is a Senior Editor for PEOPLE Magazine. He began working with the brand as an ...

A local bat sanctuary is changing the way we look at bats — in a live-cam, virtual way — with the Flying Fox Cam. Lubee Bat Conservancy's live camera is mounted in one of the bat houses and showcases ...

Forget the good old eagle on the reverse side of quarters! In 2020, you could have a fruit bat on it instead. As part of the U.S. Mint’s America the Beautiful Quarters program, six special designs, ...

The quarter will be released in February 2020. Keep an eye out for a shiny new quarter with a raised image of fruit bats and be careful not to let the coin fly out of your wallet or pocket. As part of ...