For more than 400 years, an oil painting titled Air by Flemish master Jan Brueghel the Elder has been hiding a scientific ...

As the only mammals that have evolved the ability to fly, bats need a lot of calories to get off the ground. That means they have to eat well over their body weight each day, which adds up to a lot of ...

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Birds are the undisputed champions of epic travel -- but they are not the only long-haul fliers. A handful of bats are known to travel thousands of kilometers in continental migrations across North ...

Researchers used wireless neural recording and imaging devices to 'listen in' on the hippocampal brain activity of groups of Egyptian fruit bats as they flew freely within a large flight room. The ...

The same neurons that help bats navigate through space may also help them navigate collective social environments, finds a new study published today in the journal Nature. Many mammals—including bats ...