Learn about the giant Japanese spider crab and its unique characteristics. Trump has three strike options that would aid the protesters and devastate Iran US plane used in boat strike was made to look ...

Carcinization is the separate, five-time evolution of crabs. Parallel evolution isn’t unheard of by any means, but crabs have done it a lot. Their repeated similar evolution makes them interesting to ...

Scientists filmed bats to see how they communicate while swarming. They found a surprise: In urban settings, rats attack bats. What are the... Bats carry lots of viruses – including variants of the ...

This is the moment a rat snatched a bat out of midair, before eating it. An infrared camera caught the rodent leaping towards its prey, almost falling off its perch in the process, and then running ...

Bats carry lots of viruses – including variants of the coronavirus that sparked the pandemic. But since bats don't often attack humans, the question is: What's the risk of these viruses being passed ...

A rat attacks a bat as it flies by in this still image from a video that researchers captured. Gloza-Rausch, F. et al. Global Ecology and Conservation 2025, Knörnschild Lab, Museum für Naturkunde ...

In a dark cave in northern Germany, an invasive brown rat stands upright, balancing with its tail. Suddenly it reaches into the night sky, plucks a bat from the air, and crunches down on it. At first, ...

Researchers have captured video of an unexpected predator at two bat hibernation sites in northern Germany: invasive brown rats that lie in wait to intercept the bats mid-flight. “Because bats in ...