Contrary to popular belief, bats are not blind and many species have excellent eyesight. They use echolocation, a sophisticated navigation system, to hunt and fly in darkness. These fascinating ...

Mexican long-nosed bats have been identified in southeastern Arizona through citizen scientist efforts and innovative DNA ...

What if we could understand what animals are really saying? At UW, scientists are breaking barriers in animal communication, ...

Bats have eyes comparable to humans, but it has developed an advanced mechanism known as echolocation to navigate around and hunt in the night. The bats emit high-pitched sound pulses through ...

A Pennsylvania dentist thought a “bat bomb," with 1,000 bats starting fires, would end the war faster than the atomic bomb.

A bat colony has returned to the attic of a Lane County Public Works building. Here's what is being done to safely exclude ...

To help bats and wind turbines coexist, researchers have taken inspiration from a moth. Bats have a keen sense of echolocation, but for some reason, they do not avoid turbines. Some species even face ...

Creative wildlife take. Creatively illuminated blurry background. Close up small lesser horseshoe bat covered by wings hanging upside down on top of natural cave just after hibernation. Creative ...

An endangered species of bat has been confirmed in Arizona for the first time, using an emerging genetic sampling method and the work of an amateur scientist.

[Tony Messina] had been fascinated with bat’s echolocation since he was a kid. After he retired, he decided to act on this fascination and built a simple bat detector. The simple bat detector ...