While researching our QUEST TV story on Northern California's bats, I discovered these stunning videos of bats in mid flight produced by the labs of biologists Sharon Swartz and Kenny Breuer, at Brown ...

Every day, our brain takes countless fleeting experiences—from walks on the beach to presentations at work—and transforms them into long-term memories. How exactly this works remains a mystery, but ...

Saturday and Sunday evening just north of San Antonio at Bracken Cave one of nature's small wonders took flight as millions of mother bats who recently gave birth took the air for the first time with ...

Researchers at the UC Davis Center for Neuroscience mapped the brain regions controlling movements in Egyptian fruit bats. Large regions of motor cortex are dedicated to the tongue, which makes sonar ...

Powered flight in nature has only evolved through four stages. The earliest stage, the pterosaur, was a flying reptile that is now extinct. Today, insects, birds and bats represent the remaining ...

Hair-thin muscles embedded in the skin of their wings allow bats like this Jamaican fruit bat to change the stiffness and curvature of their wings at different points of the wing stroke. That ...

Flying bats do not travel through silence. Every call they make comes back layered with sound from leaves, branches, trunks, and open gaps. In a real woodland corridor, those echoes arrive together, ...

Small bats are bad at converting energy into muscle power. Surprisingly, a new study led by Lund University in Sweden reveals that this ability increases the faster they fly. Small bats are bad at ...

A new study shows how the brains of Egyptian fruit bats are highly specialized for echolocation and flight, with motor areas of the cerebral cortex that are dedicated to sonar production and wing ...