16-03-10 As the deadly bat disease called white-nose syndrome continues to spread across North America, scientists are studying bats in China to understand how they are able to survive infections with the same fungus that has wiped out millions of North Amer...

15-07-10 In Borneo, some insectivorous bats have developed a rather intriguing relationship with carnivorous pitcher plants. The plants offer the bats a relatively cool place to roost, free of parasites and competition from other bats. In return, the bats ke...

15-03-20 Bats are not as stereotyped when they hunt as previously believed. New research shows that these flying mammals are capable of making ultra-fast decisions about how to attack their prey -- or maybe even call off the attack. It takes only millisecond...

14-07-23 Scientists have discovered that greater mouse-eared bats use polarisation patterns in the sky to navigate -- the first mammal that's known to do this. The bats use the way the Sun's light is scattered in the atmosphere at sunset to calibrate their i...

14-06-25 Vampire bats' strict blood diet has made them lose much of their ability to taste bitter flavours, a study has found. 一项研究发现，吸血蝙蝠绝对的血液饮食使它们失去了品尝苦味的能力。 Bitter taste acts as a natural defence against eating poisonous fo...

14-01-27 As the male tngara frog serenades（唱小夜曲） female frogs from a pond, he creates watery ripples that make him easier to target by rivals and predators such as bats, according to researchers from The University of Texas at Austin, the Smithsonian T...

14-01-26 About 100,000 bats have fallen from the sky and died during a heatwave in Australia that has left the trees and earth littered with dead creatures. 澳大利亚的酷热天气导致10万只蝙蝠从天上掉落死亡，树上和地上到处散落着蝙蝠的尸体。 In scenes likened to...

13-10-30 Sperm whales weigh up to 50 tons, and the smallest bat barely reaches a gram. Nevertheless, the two species share the same success story: They both have developed the ability to use echolocation -- a biological sonar -- for hunting. Now Danish resea...

13-09-04 An international team of scientists, including biologists from, the University of York, has discovered five new species of bats in West Africa. The team, which also included researchers from the Czech University of Life Sciences and the Academy of S...

13-07-05 For years, pilots flying into combat have jammed enemy radar to get the drop on their opponents. It turns out that moths can do it, too. A new study co-authored by a University of Florida researcher shows hawkmoths（天蛾） use sonic pulses from thei...