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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Any meteorologists casually monitoring the National Weather Service's Houston radar might have been shocked to see a green cloud-shaped image suddenly swell out of nothing on the screen one evening in ...

The bat-human conflict is just one way in which Austin’s soaring development intersects with downtown wildlife, residents and ...

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 ...