Bats navigate cluttered environments by interpreting patterns in echo changes—known as acoustic flow velocity—rather than analyzing individual echoes. Experiments show bats adjust their speed based on ...

The dream of flying has always fascinated humanity. In evolutionary history, the ability to fly has emerged independently only three times: in birds, pterosaurs, and, uniquely among mammals, in bats.

Flying bats do not travel through silence. Every call they make comes back layered with sound from leaves, branches, trunks, and open gaps. In a real woodland corridor, those echoes arrive together, ...

Bats are not only masters of aerodynamic flight — they’re skillful at multitasking while flying, too. By Rachel Nuwer Some humans like to think of themselves as good multitaskers, but bats may do it ...

The image of the bat with blood and feathers around its mouth perfectly illustrates the story now published in Science by an international research team. Carlos Ibáñez at the Doñana Biological Station ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. (KTVZ) – On a research cruise focused on marine mammals and seabirds, Oregon State University scientists earned an unexpected bonus: The first-ever documented sighting of a hoary bat ...

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 ...

Bats are some of the most highly specialized mammals to have ever evolved. This includes not only the evolution of active ...

THAT ENDS WITH QUITE THE SHOW. HELLO, EVERYBODY, AND WELCOME TO THE BAT TALK TONIGHT. IT’S AN EXPERIENCE UNIQUE TO YOLO COUNTY. LET’S GET INTO LEARNING MORE ABOUT BATS. IT STARTS WITH A PRESENTATION ...

This is "Bat Week" in the U.S. No, it's not a Halloween promotion. It's an annual awareness campaign to educate the public about bats' critical role in the environment. And to remind everyone not to ...