Many species of bats use echolocation to avoid obstacles like tree branches and hunt small insects as they fly through the dark. But it turns out echolocation for bats is much more than just a ...

Blind as a bat? Hardly. All bats can see to some degree, and certain species possess prominent eyes and a keen sense of vision. Take the Egyptian fruit bat (Rousettus aegyptiacus). This species is ...

Bats famously have an ultrasonic navigation system: they use their extremely sensitive hearing to orient themselves by emitting ultrasonic sounds and using the echoes that result to build up a picture ...

For a bat to be at the top of its game for echolocation, it needs a good head on its shoulders. Not all bats, though, are the same when it comes to sensing their surroundings in total darkness — some ...

No matter what's for dinner, many different species of bats hunt using sound. Some bats use echolocation to target mosquitos, while others seek out cattle for blood-sucking or search for agave flowers ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists from diverse universities conducted controlled experiments to determine how big-eared bats detect insects sitting on ...

Blind as a bat? Hardly. All bats can see to some degree, and certain species possess prominent eyes and a keen sense of vision. Take the Egyptian fruit bat (Rousettus aegyptiacus). This species is ...

Different species of bats use their sonar in slightly different ways. Scientists are trying to understand how this extraordinary sense is changing the structure of bat skulls. Bats are some of the ...

Neuroscientists have discovered a feedback loop that modulates the receptivity of the auditory cortex to incoming acoustic signals when bats emit echolocation calls. The researchers show that ...