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

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

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

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

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

(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 ...

The soprano pipistrelle (Pipistrellus pygmaeus) weighs no more than a quarter dollar. Tens of thousands of individuals fly south along the Baltic coast of Latvia in August and September. The soprano ...