When night falls, a high-stakes acrobatic drama takes the stage, a swirl of bats hunting insects, trying to outmaneuver each other in aerial pursuit and escape. Science reporter Ari Daniel has the ...
(CN) — Bats might not lead the most exciting lives, but they do have one real-life superpower that aids in their evening hunts for insect dinners: echolocation. In a new study published by the ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - All's fair in love and war - and also in mid-air bug hunting, if you're a bat. Scientists studying a common species of these flying mammals found that the bats, while competing ...
WESTBOROUGH — Halloween conjures up images of ghosts, witches and things that go bump in the night. But one creature often associated with jack o’ lanterns and ravens is not so deserving of its spooky ...
Bioengineers have developed a new class of bionic 3D camera systems that can mimic flies' multiview vision and bats' natural sonar sensing, resulting in multidimensional imaging with extraordinary ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The sound made by a male big brown bat as it zeroes in on a bug that might make a tasty meal - if another bat doesn't get there first - is a sequence of chirps beyond the range ...