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

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

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

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

Bats use echolocation to get around, but it wasn’t clear how these creatures managed to navigate dense environments—until now ...

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

Scientists from diverse universities conducted controlled experiments to determine how big-eared bats detect insects sitting on leaves in the dark of night. Inga Geipel, a research associate from ...

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