Bats navigate chaos in complete darkness by listening to shifting echoes, adjusting speed instantly without tracking every ...

The experimental results demonstrated that bats rely on acoustic flow for speed control, which may serve them in navigation.

A long-standing mystery about how wild bats navigate complex environments in complete darkness with remarkable precision, has ...

Bats are some of the most misunderstood mammals on the planet. While some do drink blood, the vast majority enjoy a diet of ...

Biologists and engineers have joined forces to build a new robot bat that’s helping us understand how real bats use ...

Large tropical bats with narrow home ranges are disproportionately likely to be hunted by humans, according to a global analysis of 1,320 bat species — nearly all of the 1,400 known to science 1.

A fossil found in Wyoming has apparently resolved a long-standing question about when bats gained their radar-like ability to navigate and locate airborne insects at night. The answer: after they ...

Federally listed as vulnerable to extinction because numbers have fallen around Australia, there are at least 15 sites in ...