Bats are well known for their ability to “see” with sound, using echolocation to find food and their roosts. Some bats may also conceive a map made of sounds from their home range. This map can help ...

We all know that bats are masters of the night, with their high-pitched calls and whisper-quiet wings, weaving through ...

If you have ever watched a bat cut through the night sky, it almost feels unreal. No light, no landmarks, yet no crashes ...

A new study from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute used a robot to mimic common big-eared bats' echolocation skills ...

In a new study published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, scientists from the University of Bristol reframe the concept of echolocation.

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

According to past experiments, big-eared bats use leaves as acoustic mirrors to hunt silent insects. The theory stated that ...

Flying bats do not travel through silence. Every call they make comes back layered with sound from leaves, branches, trunks, ...

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

Scientists have finally cracked the code on how bats fly through dense forests without crashing. This discovery of sound flow ...

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

A frog-eating bat approaches a túngara frog, one of its preferred foods. Image credit: Grant Maslowski It is late at night, and we are silently watching a bat in a roost through a night-vision camera.