It’s widely believed that “patient zero” for the world’s deadliest Ebola outbreak was a two-year old boy from the remote village of Meliandou, Guinea. Like many children in his farmland town, the boy ...

NIPOMO, Calif. (AP) – In a sign that the holiday seasons really are blending together, a woman discovered a bat in her Christmas tree. Sheila Kearns bought her annual pine from Holloway’s Christmas ...

In this photo provided by UNICEF on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014, a person holds a family photograph of a new-born Emile, known as patient zero and his mother and father. The first known victim of the ...

Bats who evolved to roost in trees suffer peak fatalities when it’s less windy during the late summer and in the fall. Using thermal cameras, researchers may have finally figured out what puts these ...

Bats in tropical regions are fertilizing trees with their excretions. An international team of scientists recently discovered that seeds of a tropical tree species, which regularly hosts bats in large ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — A bat hanging in the attic or in a room of the house can be an annoyance, and possibly dangerous, but there’s more to bats than that. The U.S. Department of Agriculture ...

But thousands of bats lived in the tree, and one toddler — a 2-year-old named Emile Ouamouno — may have contracted Ebola from playing there. Emile, who died in December 2013, was "patient zero," or ...

IN THE SUPERIOR NATIONAL FOREST - She was hissing and squealing and trying to open her tiny mouth wide enough to nip the glove of the biologist who was holding her. But the young female northern ...

LANSING – Hundreds of felled mature trees have offered strange drive-by viewing since late March along Michigan Avenue at the site of the old Red Cedar Golf Course. It looks like a site of a bombing, ...

URBANA, Ill. – Bats help keep forests growing. Without bats to hold their populations in check, insects that munch on tree seedlings go wild, doing three to nine times more damage than when bats are ...

Trees litter the picnic area at the northbound rest area on I-71 just south of the Jeremiah Morrow Bridge. Someone cut down a bunch of trees a few months ago at the north and southbound rest areas ...