A long-standing mystery about how wild bats navigate complex environments in complete darkness with remarkable precision, has ...

Common big-eared bats are remarkable hunters. In 2019, bat ecologist Inga Geipel and her colleagues reported that the roughly two-inch-long creatures seem to use leaves like “acoustic mirrors” to ...

Biologists and engineers have joined forces to build a new robot bat that’s helping us understand how real bats use ...

Scientists built a robot to help explain how a tropical bat spots insects perched on leaves using echolocation, a highly ...