If you see a foreboding cloud of bats flood the night sky this summer, don’t be spooked. This mass migration is not a bad omen but a glimpse at some of Arizonan’s most interesting creatures. The National Weather Service reported a large emergence of bats from the Phoenix bat cave at about 9 p.m. on […]
A baseball and softball training facility is asking for help identifying a woman caught on video stealing several bats. It happened at D-BAT in Huntersville. The business posted video on social media Wednesday of the theft. The surveillance video shows the woman hiding all the bats in her skirt. “There were just piles of bats […]
A protein found in bats could have “therapeutic potential” for humans. (Getty Images) It’s been a busy week in health news — from saying goodbye to COVID public health and mpox global health emergencies to ushering in a new era of over-the-counter birth control pills. But that’s not all that happened in the wellness space. […]
Four individuals were taken into custody on Monday following an assault on a city of Rochester security guard. According to Rochester police, the incident occurred around 8:30 p.m. at La Grange Park when a security guard approached individuals parked in a vehicle and advised them that the park was closing. Despite instructions to leave, the […]
“Oh man, you’ve just been eaten by catfish,” California Department of Fish and Wildlife interpreter Molly Shea told 6-year-old Sebastian Alvarez after he spun the salmon wheel of survival for a tenth time on Sunday afternoon. Each spin, and the number it landed on, represented another possibility in a salmon’s “tough life,” explained Shea. Salmon […]
BENGALURU (Reuters) -Indian FMCG and tobacco giant ITC’s shares jumped more than 8% on Wednesday, after top shareholder British American Tobacco’s $2 billion stake sale in the company went through smoothly, removing a key overhang on the stock. In India’s third-largest block deal, BAT completed the sale of 436.9 million shares, or roughly 3.5% of […]
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 Organization, diabetes became the ninth leading cause of death in 2019. Humans are not the only mammals that love sugar. Fruit […]
Researchers carrying out work at a Mayan burial site in Mexico said this week they found a sealed-off cave that contained human skeletons, along with the remains of over 20 types of animals. The research work is being conducted in Tulum by Mexico’s federal Ministry of Culture, through the country’s National Institute of Anthropology and […]
A protein found in bats could have “therapeutic potential” for humans. (Getty Images) It’s been a busy week in health news — from saying goodbye to COVID public health and mpox global health emergencies to ushering in a new era of over-the-counter birth control pills. But that’s not all that happened in the wellness space. […]
Researchers in New Zealand have discovered two new coronavirus lineages in bats, with infection rates reaching over 60 percent in some species. Many of the diseases that plague the modern world—think AIDS and COVID-19—are thought to have originated from animal reservoirs. Bats in particular are a rich source of these so-called zoonotic diseases, thanks to […]