This ‘NOVA’ presentation delves into the development of brains—those of both humans and some of our intelligent fellow ...

A wild bottlenose dolphin in Australia has developed a foraging trick so strange that researchers spent four years making ...

A Northern California bat expert is warning Halloween enthusiasts to ditch the artificial webbing, which can ensnare the ...

Bats fly through the darkness with surprising accuracy. Discover the amazing power of echolocation, which helps many bats ...

Northern California wildlife experts are urging residents to skip a common Halloween decoration this year after multiple bats ...

Metaphysics The Nature of Reality Simon Everson says Immanuel Kant can help with quantum mechanics. Could it be that the ...

EXPERTS are sounding the alarm about a classic Halloween decoration that can actually be deadly to birds and other wildlife.

Unlike megabats, which rely on well-developed vision, microbats use ultrasonic echolocation to navigate and locate prey. To study ultrasound perception, here we compared the auditory cortices of ...

Fake spider webs may be a popular Halloween decoration, but wildlife experts are warning that the stretchy material can trap ...

The largest study ever of bat genome research combined with bat fossils reveals that bats originated in Europe some 65 million years ago, not in Africa, Asia or North America as scientists have long ...

An animal this hard to find sounds like one close to disappearing. Spotted bats roost alone in cliffs across western North America, and a naturalist writing in 1899 called them among the rarest ...

New research shows that proboscis bats communicate with each other and echolocate at higher frequencies than scientists expected. This could help the animals sneak up to their targets and evade creatu ...