Could bats' cave-dwelling nocturnal habits over eons enhanced their echolocation acoustic abilities, but also spurred their loss of vision? A new study has examined this question in the evolution of ...

Scientists determine the color of ancient bats based on the shape of the melanin preserved in their fossils. If these bats had their own coloring book, you'd only get to use one or two crayons. Danny ...

Artificial light influences the behavior of many nocturnal animals such as bats, which are very sensitive to all types of lighting. Particularly critical is the illumination of natural caves in which ...

Did you know that Texas has the highest number of bat species in the United States and has been designated as the most "bat friendly" state? Of the 43 bat species currently known to occur in the U. S.

The eyes of nocturnal bats possess two spectral cone photoreceptor types for daylight and color vision. Scientists have detected cones and their visual pigments in two flower-visiting species of bat.

Nancy Simmons was sitting in her office at the American Museum of Natural History two years ago when she got a startling text from a research expedition in Africa. It was a picture of a bat. But not ...

Could bats' cave-dwelling nocturnal habits over eons enhanced their echolocation acoustic abilities, but also spurred their loss of vision? A new study led by Bruno Simões, Emma Teeling and colleagues ...