Bats navigate chaos in complete darkness by listening to shifting echoes, adjusting speed instantly without tracking every ...

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

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

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

"Lots of things fly at night," says Harlan Gough, a wildlife biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Nightfall can set the stage for an acrobatic high-stakes drama in the air — a swirl of ...

Bats are some of the most misunderstood mammals on the planet. While some do drink blood, the vast majority enjoy a diet of ...

Editor's note: Additional advice on how to handle a bat encounter has been added to this story. I was comforted to hear that I wasn't the only one who'd been awakened in the dead of night by a bat ...