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

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(CN) — Bats might not lead the most exciting lives, but they do have one real-life superpower that aids in their evening hunts for insect dinners: echolocation. In a new study published by the ...

It’s well understood that spiders have poor eyesight and thus sense the vibrations in their webs whenever prey (like a fly) gets caught; the web serves as an extension of their sensory system. But ...

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

Bats are some of the most highly specialized mammals to have ever evolved. This includes not only the evolution of active ...

Echolocating bats have been found to possess an acoustic cognitive map of their home range, enabling them to navigate over kilometer-scale distances using echolocation alone. This finding, published ...

Pregnancy can do weird things to the body. For some bats, it can hamper their ability to “see” the world around them. The study is among the first to show that pregnancy can shape how nonhuman mammals ...

Neuroscientists have discovered a feedback loop that modulates the receptivity of the auditory cortex to incoming acoustic signals when bats emit echolocation calls. The researchers show that ...

Genetic analysis finds evidence suggesting that acoustic fat bodies in the heads of toothed whales were once the muscles and bone marrow of the jaw. Dolphins and whales use sound to communicate, ...

Bats live in a world of sounds. They use vocalizations both to communicate with their conspecifics and for navigation. For the latter, they emit sounds in the ultrasonic range, which echo and enable ...

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