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Bats

Bats have a specialized thin skin that allows their wings to change when a muscle is activated with every beat cycle of the wings.

Researchers explore the fascinating biomechanics and neuroscience of bats

Science

To get a true sense of wonder that surrounds the movement of bats, you just have to slow things down a little.

Bats flying near Bracken Cave, Texas.

For the future of self-driving technology, look to … bats?

Science
Small brown bat

A bat-killing disease is even more destructive than previously thought

Environment

Deadly bat disease kills entire colonies

Environment

America’s Bats on the Brink

The World

Fly-by-Night Murder Mystery

Why bats in caves could be like canaries in coalmines.

Bats May Be Wiped Out by White-Nose Syndrome

A fungus dubbed white-nose syndrome, first discovered in bat colonies in 2006, is threatening to wipe out nine species of bats across the country. Since first discovered, scientists estimate that over a million bats have died of the disease. If the animals disappear, their main food source, insects, may balloon to troubling proportions, destroying crops […]