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.

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

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

Hair-thin muscles embedded in the skin of their wings allow bats like this Jamaican fruit bat to change the stiffness and curvature of their wings at different points of the wing stroke. That ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...