The experimental results demonstrated that bats rely on acoustic flow for speed control, which may serve them in navigation.

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

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

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

While researching our QUEST TV story on Northern California's bats, I discovered these stunning videos of bats in mid flight produced by the labs of biologists Sharon Swartz and Kenny Breuer, at Brown ...

Bats generate a measurably distinct aerodynamic footprint to achieve lift and maneuverability, quite unlike birds and contrary to many of the assumptions that aerodynamicists have used to model animal ...

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 ...

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 ...