For an animal that spends much of its life upside down and in the dark, the bat has left scientists with a surprisingly long ...

Europe is now the most likely starting point for bat evolution, about 65 million years ago, and echolocation was already working then.

Unlike megabats, which rely on well-developed vision, microbats use ultrasonic echolocation to navigate and locate prey. To study ultrasound perception, here we compared the auditory cortices of ...

New research from the University of St Andrews has created the largest combined study of bat genomes and fossils ever ...

The largest analysis of bat genomes and fossils suggests that the first bats emerged in Europe roughly 65 million years ago and that echolocation evolved early.

Clicks, squeaks, chirps, and buzzes...though they may be difficult to distinguish to our ears, such sounds are used by echolocating animals to paint a vivid picture of their surroundings. By ...

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For years, a small number of people who are blind have used echolocation, by making a clicking sound with their mouths and listening for the reflection of the sound to judge their surroundings. Now, ...