A study published in the journal Royal Society Open Science shows that the Brazilian free-tailed bat can achieve flight speeds of 100 mph (160 km per hour)...
A team of scientists, led by Dr. Reed Shabman of the J. Craig Venter Institute and Prof. Christopher Basler of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai,...
A new species of woolly horseshoe bat has been described from Sabah, Malaysian Borneo.
The Francis’ woolly horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus francisi). Image...
A team of paleontologists from the United States and the United Kingdom has discovered the reddish brown color of extinct bats from fossils dating back...
The study, published in the journal Current Biology, shows that carnivorous plants have reflective structures that are acoustically attractive for mutualistic...
Bat wings are equipped with an unusual repertoire of very sensitive touch sensors, a new study in the journal Cell Reports has found.
The big brown bat...
A team of paleontologists, co-led by Dr Xing Xu and Dr Xiaoting Zheng of the Linyi University’s Institute of Geology and Paleontology, has discovered...
An international team of scientists from Israel and Thailand has found that Old World fruit bats, which have always been classified as non-echolocating,...
Mexican free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis) compete for prey by jamming each other’s sonar, says a new study carried out by Wake Forest University...
The Greater mouse-eared bat (Myotis myotis) is the first mammal that’s known to use polarization patterns in the sky to calibrate an internal magnetic...
Paleontologists have described a new extinct genus and two fossil species of the bat family Myzopodidae from several fossilized jawbones and teeth discovered...
A new study reported in the open-access journal ZooKeys provides details on the taxonomy, biology, and population status of the Mortlock flying fox (Pteropus...
According to European scientists reporting in the journal Nature, bottlenose dolphins and bats have a genetic resemblance due to their echolocation capability.
A...
An international team of biologists has described five new species of Vesper bats from Senegal.
Image of Nycticeinops schlieffenii which is represented...
An international team of biologists led by Prof DeeAnn Reeder from Bucknell University, Pennsylvania, and Dr Adrian Garside from Fauna & Flora International...
A team of researchers has found that bats take advantage of their flexibility by folding in their wings on the upstroke to save inertial energy.
Efficiencies...
