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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 ...

Human beings are not the only ones with a sweet tooth. Fruit bats are named after their love of sugary fruits. In fact, they can eat double their body weight in fruit, which is their main source of ...

An extreme case of noctilionoid bats with a fruit-based diet, the wrinkle-faced bat, Centurio senex, has a short bulldog-like snout and reduced numbers of teeth.

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 ...