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

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

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 ...

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

It’s the time of year when people start seeing more bats, when more bats get into their houses, when more bats are submitted for rabies testing. It’s a new generation of bats, testing their wings.

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 ...

Editor's note: Additional advice on how to handle a bat encounter has been added to this story. I was comforted to hear that I wasn't the only one who'd been awakened in the dead of night by a bat ...