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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fruit bats have honed their sweet tooth through adaptive evolution. Keith Rose/iStock via Getty Images Plus People around the ...

This Artibeus fruit bat feasts on sugary fruit every night but these winged mammals don’t suffer from diabetes or other metabolic problems as humans might if we were to gorge on sugar. Some bats like ...

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. A high ...

Noctilionoid bat species evolved wildly different faces as they adapted to exploit diverse food sources -- including insects, fruit, nectar, blood and fish. New research shows that those adaptations ...

Well, not the kind of candy you buy in a sweets shop. Rather, they like fruit, which is rich in sugar. “We call it nature’s candy,” says Wei Gordon, a biologist at Menlo College. She was catching ...