We all know that bats are masters of the night, with their high-pitched calls and whisper-quiet wings, weaving through tangled trees and swooping in on insects in total darkness. But exactly how they ...

Forget high-tech radar; nature's original night-fliers have been hiding a navigation secret that puts our best sensors to shame. A groundbreaking study from the University of Bristol has finally ...

Most library-goers don’t get to enjoy a bit of nature while pursuing books; not so for Portugal’s Joanine Library. A colony of bats has called the library home since the 18th century. The fascinating ...

P. kuhlii above a spectrogram of its echolocation sequence. Source: Eran Amichai, used with permission. Many bats navigate using echolocation—emitting high-frequency sound pulses and analyzing the ...

But a new study sheds light on this question. It reveals that bats don’t just listen to echoes the way we once thought, but also use something called acoustic flow velocity to judge their speed and ...