Bats are the only mammals capable of powered flight and have correspondingly specialized body plans, particularly in their limb morphology. In new research published in PeerJ Life & Environment, ...

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s a rat-grabbing-bat!

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 ...

From dragonflies to hummingbirds, hovering flight is among the most complex and captivating forms of animal movement—a physiological feat of size, musculature and wing development. For nectar-feeding ...

Bats’ ability to swoop and soar through the sky might have given them another ‘superpower’ — invincibility to most viruses. Around the time that bat ancestors evolved powered flight, their genomes ...

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 ...

Bats are devouring robins mid-flight on their migration route to Britain, scientists have found. Aarhus University in Denmark put trackers on greater noctule bats – the largest bats in Europe – and ...

MERTZTOWN, Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- When it comes to a healthy ecosystem, experts say bats are essential. One Berks County nonprofit's goal is to spread that awareness, while nursing these mammals back ...