Bats “surf” storm fronts when they migrate every year, researchers write in a new analysis this month. Published in Science, the study sheds light on a little-known phenomenon: the long-distance ...

Could bats' cave-dwelling nocturnal habits over eons enhanced their echolocation acoustic abilities, but also spurred their loss of vision? A new study has examined this question in the evolution of ...

Today, Durand responds to bat-related call-outs across the Vryheid area, helping injured bats and advising residents who ...

Daylight photoreceptors and UV sensitivity in the retinas of nocturnal bats The eyes of nocturnal bats possess two spectral cone photoreceptor types for daylight and colour vision. Reporting in the ...

There are over 1,400 bat species in the world, and they are almost exclusively nocturnal. Bats have traditionally been classified as Microchiroptera, or microbats, and Megachiroptera, or megabats.

A team of researchers fanned out across the desert north of Las Vegas last week in search of bats. What they found was a sky full of expectant mothers. Of the 532 bats cataloged during the four-day ...

Bats can get lift from their landscape. The flying mammals surf on air currents, which sweep upwards as they hit hills or slopes, to reach altitudes of up to 1600 metres. Birds do this too, but it ...

Could bats' cave-dwelling nocturnal habits over eons enhanced their echolocation acoustic abilities, but also spurred their loss of vision? A new study led by Bruno Simões, Emma Teeling and colleagues ...