Wild fringe-lipped bats spend just one-tenth of the night in flight, but they can precisely snatch a calling frog and nab ...

Every day, our brain takes countless fleeting experiences—from walks on the beach to presentations at work—and transforms them into long-term memories. How exactly this works remains a mystery, but ...

Flying bats do not travel through silence. Every call they make comes back layered with sound from leaves, branches, trunks, ...

For the past 25 years, Professor of Engineering and Biology Sharon Swartz and Professor of Engineering Kenneth Breuer ’82 P’14 P’16 have been fascinated by animal flight. The two professors have ...

We all know that bats are masters of the night, with their high-pitched calls and whisper-quiet wings, weaving through ...

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Hair-thin muscles embedded in the skin of their wings allow bats like this Jamaican fruit bat to change the stiffness and curvature of their wings at different points of the wing stroke. That ...