Flying bats do not travel through silence. Every call they make comes back layered with sound from leaves, branches, trunks, ...

The experimental results demonstrated that bats rely on acoustic flow for speed control, which may serve them in navigation. Compared to sonar-based robots that perform poorly as soon as you add ...

Small bats are bad at converting energy into muscle power. Surprisingly, a new study led by Lund University in Sweden reveals that this ability increases the faster they fly. Small bats are bad at ...

We all know that bats are masters of the night, with their high-pitched calls and whisper-quiet wings, weaving through ...

Researchers at the UC Davis Center for Neuroscience mapped the brain regions controlling movements in Egyptian fruit bats. Large regions of motor cortex are dedicated to the tongue, which makes sonar ...

Powered flight in nature has only evolved through four stages. The earliest stage, the pterosaur, was a flying reptile that is now extinct. Today, insects, birds and bats represent the remaining ...

Saturday and Sunday evening just north of San Antonio at Bracken Cave one of nature's small wonders took flight as millions of mother bats who recently gave birth took the air for the first time with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For this study, researchers set up thermal and infrared cameras to keep tabs on two bat hibernation sites in the towns of Segeberg ...

A new study shows how the brains of Egyptian fruit bats are highly specialized for echolocation and flight, with motor areas of the cerebral cortex that are dedicated to sonar production and wing ...