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

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

New research shows that just like humans, vampire bats with deep social relationships use similar sounds as one another to communicate ...

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Tiny droplets can navigate their way through unknown environments like living cells – without sensors, computers or external control. This finding by researchers led by TU Darmstadt has now been ...

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

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

A recent study by a team of researchers led by TU Darmstadt has found that tiny amounts of liquid can navigate their way ...

Many bats aren't blind and use their keen eyesight, especially some fruit bats that navigate visually in low light and use ...

When researchers from the University of British Columbia set out to film the solitary hunting habits of Northern resident ...

The researchers found that caterpillars perceive both, though they had a 10- to 100-fold greater reaction to airborne sound ...

The white-backed swallow survives the extreme temperatures of inland Australia by reducing its body temperature to save ...