When they emerge at night in large numbers, bats avoid colliding with each other by adjusting both their flight patterns and ...

As thousands of bats launch nightly hunting, the cacophony of a dense crowd should stymie echolocation, a so-called “cocktail party nightmare.” ...

As darkness falls and the air begins to cool, thousands of bats burst from the narrow mouth of their cave. The sky comes ...

The downside of the spring warmup — the emergence of biting mosquitoes and other flying pests — would be much worse without ...

Bats do not fatally crash into each other every night, even in colonies of hundreds of thousands of them, squeezing out of caves to forage. Bats perceive their world mostly through echolocation.

In a dark, damp cave in southeastern China, a creature with three jaws and a taste for blood clung to the rock ceiling, ...

A new study from Tel Aviv University reveals that the greater mouse-tailed bat (Rhinopoma microphyllum) uses its long tail as a natural tactile sensor to navigate backward in dark caves.