Bats are some of the most highly specialized mammals to have ever evolved. This includes not only the evolution of active flight, but also their echolocation. This ability requires the bats to produce ...

Learn how echolocation has shaped the skulls of bats that emit high-frequency sounds through their mouths and noses.

Most of us associate echolocation with bats. These amazing creatures are able to chirp at frequencies beyond the limit of our hearing, and they use the reflected sound to map the world around them. It ...

High-frequency ultrasound significantly reduces the size of the face and modifies the internal bones of the ear in bats.

New research shows that the brains of sighted and blind people adapt in a similar way when they learn to use sound echoes to understand the world without vision. The study, led by Durham University, ...

It may sound like a scene from Nosferatu, but research from the University of East Anglia shows that humans can use bat-like echolocation skills to judge the distance of objects. A study reveals that, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A pod of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) swimming at the Las Cuevitas dive site in the Revillagigedo Archipelago. We ...

Different species of bats use their sonar in slightly different ways. Scientists are trying to understand how this extraordinary sense is changing the structure of bat skulls. Bats are some of the ...