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Upper Moreland bats go silent in title game

STATE COLLEGE — Twice during these PIAA Class AAA baseball playoffs, Upper Moreland has won in its final at-bat. The Golden Bears’ flare for the dramatic brought them all the way to Penn State’s Medlar Field at Lubrano Park on Friday afternoon, and ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/52213527/ns/local_news-delaware_valley_pa_nj/t/upper-m...

Scientists Need Help Studying Bats This Summer

Wildlife biologists in Pennsylvania are looking for some help counting Appalachian bats. The Pennsylvania Game Commission says in a release Thursday that the summer bat count will help scientists determine the impact of White-Nose Syndrome, a disease that ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/52127823/ns/local_news-philadelphia_pa/t/scientists-ne...

Pennsylvania seeks volunteers to help count bats

Wildlife biologists in Pennsylvania are looking for some help counting Appalachian bats. The Pennsylvania Game Commission says in a release Thursday that the summer bat count will help scientists determine the impact of White-Nose Syndrome, a disease that ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/52125424/ns/local_news-delaware_valley_panj/

New Morris Animal Foundation-Funded Studies Will Help Species Worldwide -- From Bats to Elephants to Sea Lions

DENVER, CO — As one of the only organizations in the world that supports health research for wildlife, Morris Animal Foundation helps more species in more places than that of any other organization in the world. The nonprofit organization recently ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/51983672/ns/business-press_releases/t/new-morris-anima...

Erect tongue helps bats sop up nectar

These hair projections are called papillae, which are specialized versions of the bumps that dot the tongues of humans and ... the papillae were flat against the tongue surface. But then, as the tongue hit its maximum elongation, the hairs became erect.http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/06/18089455-erect-tongue-helps-bats-sop...

Male bats found to perform oral sex on females

Male bats perform oral sex on females, apparently to make sex last longer, researchers say. These findings, the first discovery of male-to-female oral sex in bats, match prior studies revealing that female bats perform fellatio, or oral sex, on male bats.http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/01/17555461-male-bats-found-to-perform-...

Bats host more than 60 human-infecting viruses

Many animals harbor viruses that can jump to other species, but bats may be in a class of their own when it comes to carrying zoonotic (human-infecting) viruses. Bats are reservoirs for more than 60 viruses that can infect humans, and host more viruses per ...http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/06/16872526-bats-host-more-than-60-huma...

BATS glitch affected far fewer trades than originally thought

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A systems error at U.S. stock market operator BATS Global Markets that led to a number of trades not being executed at the best possible price over a four-year period, was not as wide-spread as originally thought, BATS said on Friday.http://www.nbcnews.com/id/50589761/ns/business-stocks_and_economy/t/bats-glitch-...

Bats Have Surprisingly Complex Family Life

Group living has many benefits, but it also comes at a cost. A study of insect-eating bats in England finds that females and males often live at different altitudes, but can have surprisingly diverse mating behaviors. "Most of the bats are segregated ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/50588559/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/bats-have...

Long-lived bats offer clues on diseases, aging

HONG KONG (Reuters) - The bat, a reservoir for viruses like Ebola, SARS and Nipah, has for decades stumped scientists trying to figure out how it is immune to many deadly bugs but a recent study into its genes may finally shed some light, scientists said ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/50267189/ns/world_news-asia_pacific/t/long-lived-bats-...

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PhotoBlog - bats

Updated May. 8, 2013

Some of the 20 million bats emerge from Bracken Cave in Bracken, Texas. A depleting insect population has forced millions of bats around drought-stricken Texas to ...http://photoblog.nbcnews.com/bats

Why are thousands of bats dying in New York? - Technology ...

Updated June. 17, 2013

ROSENDALE, N.Y. — Bats in New York and Vermont are mysteriously dying off by the thousands, often with a white ring of fungus around their noses, and scientists in ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/23169737/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/why-are-t...

Male bats found to perform oral sex on females - Science

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Male bats perform oral sex on females, apparently to make sex last longer, researchers say. These findings, the first discovery of male-to-female oral sex in bats ...http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/01/17555461-male-bats-found-to-perform-...

Cosmic Log - bats

Updated June. 13, 2013

The hit movie "Contagion" focuses on a fictional killer outbreak that spreads from bats to humans, but a real-life killer is taking the reverse route.http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/bats

Erect tongue helps bats sop up nectar - Science

Updated June. 17, 2013

Bats use erectile tissue to drink. But don't worry — the tissue is on their tongues. Nectar-eating bats lap up the sweet liquid by engorging their tongues with ...http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/06/18089455-erect-tongue-helps-bats-sop...

Bat-eating spiders are everywhere, study finds - Science

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There's only one place in the world to escape bat-catching spiders: Antarctica. These arachnids ensnare and pounce on bats everywhere else in the world, researchers ...http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/16/17339831-bat-eating-spiders-are-ever...

Bats host more than 60 human-infecting viruses - Science

Updated June. 9, 2013

Many animals harbor viruses that can jump to other species, but bats may be in a class of their own when it comes to carrying zoonotic (human-infecting) viruses. Bats ...http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/06/16872526-bats-host-more-than-60-huma...

Bat, Bee, Frog Deaths May Be Linked - Technology & science ...

Updated May. 28, 2013

Bats experience a lower body temperature while hibernating, when the fungus can set in. "It may eat into a bat's skin, even putting holes in it," Mies said. "The ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/47648453/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/bat-bee-f...

Bats Host More Than 60 Human-Infecting Viruses - Technology ...

Updated June. 17, 2013

Many animals harbor viruses that can jump to other species, but bats may be in a class of their own when it comes to carrying zoonotic (human-infecting) viruses. Bats ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/50717264/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/bats-host...

Tragic ending for minor leaguer traded for bats - Baseball- NBC Sports

Updated March. 4, 2009

John C. Odom was the minor leaguer traded last year for 10 baseball bats — a player who went from pitcher to punch line. Six months later, he died in ...http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/29495228