Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The lesser long-nosed bat (Leptonycteris yerbabuenae) is a medium-sized bat found in Central and North America. The study was led ...

Scientists built a robot to help explain how a tropical bat spots insects perched on leaves using echolocation, a highly sophisticated behavior that requires precise, split-second decision making on ...

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 ...