To find out, Elena Tena, a biologist at Doñana Biological Station in Seville, Spain, and her colleagues attached ultra-light ...

Bats usually get cast as spooky night dwellers who dart through the dark or hang upside down in attics. But there’s a lot ...

(CN) — Bats might not lead the most exciting lives, but they do have one real-life superpower that aids in their evening hunts for insect dinners: echolocation. In a new study published by the ...

Fouhy et al. developed a method to take non-invasive measurements of auditory evoked potentials — which refer to the brain’s ...

As the days grow shorter and the air turns crisp, fall brings more than just pumpkin spice and colorful leaves. It’s also the ...

Europe’s largest bat hunts and eats birds midair, finally solving a 25-year mystery about how these nocturnal predators capture their prey.

After nearly 25 years of investigation, scientists have solved the mystery. Europe’s largest bat not only eats small birds, it hunts and catches them more than a kilometer above the ground—and ...

Several bats glow bright green under ultraviolet light. The glow could reveal clues about evolution in these mysterious night ...

Connecticut DEEP announced Bat Week 2025, encouraging residents to help protect the state's endangered bats ahead of ...

Bat vocal communication and echolocation represent highly specialised acoustic systems that exhibit remarkable complexity and versatility. Bats employ echolocation as a navigational tool, emitting ...

Bats exhibit remarkable sensory adaptations that enable them to navigate, forage and communicate in complex and cluttered environments. At the heart of their extraordinary capabilities lies ...

From the bloodcurdling powers of Count Dracula to the identity behind one of America's most famous superheroes, bats have ...