Bat1K consortium analyzes genomes of 103 species and 44 fossils to trace early evolution of powered flight and echolocation ...

Europe is now the most likely starting point for bat evolution, about 65 million years ago, and echolocation was already working then.

New research from the University of St Andrews has created the largest combined study of bat genomes and fossils ever ...

Many species of bats use echolocation to avoid obstacles like tree branches and hunt small insects as they fly through the dark. But it turns out echolocation for bats is much more than just a ...

For an animal that spends much of its life upside down and in the dark, the bat has left scientists with a surprisingly long ...

Searching for food at night can be tricky. To find prey in the dark, bats use echolocation, their “sixth sense.” But to find food faster, some species, like Molossus molossus, may search within ...

Blind as a bat? Hardly. All bats can see to some degree, and certain species possess prominent eyes and a keen sense of vision. Take the Egyptian fruit bat (Rousettus aegyptiacus). This species is ...

The flying mammals likely arose 65 million years ago in Europe, before spreading to Africa and then the rest of the world, ...

Scientists have found another piece in the puzzle of how echolocation evolved in bats, moving closer to solving a decades-long evolutionary mystery. All bats—apart from the fruit bats of the family ...