A robotics engineering professor is building tiny, autonomous flying robots that can use sound waves to navigate in total ...

Scientists discovered that a tiny Panamanian bat hunts like a lion, catching large prey using sound, patience, and precision.

WPI researchers are enabling aerial robots, smaller than 100 mm and weighing less than 100 g, to navigate without relying on vision.

Bats can get a bad reputation, especially around Halloween when their imagery is used to spook and scare, but Westrich and ...

Biologists discovered that the winged hunters tracked comparatively large prey like birds, frogs, and other small mammals by ...

To find out, Elena Tena, a biologist at Doñana Biological Station in Seville, Spain, and her colleagues attached ultra-light ...

For all their benefits, the world's only flying mammals continue to be the subject of several myths. One misconception is ...

Most library-goers don’t get to enjoy a bit of nature while pursuing books; not so for Portugal’s Joanine Library. A colony of bats has called the library home since the 18th century. The fascinating ...

For the first time, brown rats have been filmed actively hunting bats, snatching some from the air and capturing others on ...