A team of mechanical and biological engineers at Cornell University and the Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Brown ...

Greater mouse-tailed bats crawl backwards over cave walls, and it seems they use their long tails to help feel their way ...

Some humans like to think of themselves as good multitaskers, but bats may do it better. Many bat species have the ability to fly while simultaneously drinking water — but unlike people who try ...

GOLDSHTEIN: So when a bat emit an echolocation call, it wait to the reflected echo in order to get information about the ...

Imagine being able to fly through pitch-black caves, dart between tree branches at midnight, and snatch a tiny insect out of ...

They were seen as bad omen, harbingers of death, companions of evil beings that would feed on the blood of unsuspecting humans. Since aeons, mankind has been wa ...

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

Hoary bats are the largest bats in VA, have a furry tail membrane called a "booty blanket") that helps them stay warm while roosting.

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

In a forested region of Angola where a cliff separates the landscape, a new species of butterfly was discovered. /iStockphoto ...

When bats aren't flying, they often dangle from cave ceilings or the undersides of bridges. But why do bats sleep upside down ...

A colony of maternal Mexican Free-Tailed bats can be found under Waugh Drive Bridge in Houston year-round, but the bats ...