Holy bat buzz, Batman—a new study shows the night flyers are the first known mammals with superfast muscles. Found in some songbirds and snakes, superfast muscles in bats occur in the throat and ...

As nocturnal animals, bats rely echolocation to navigate and hunt prey. By bouncing sound waves off objects, including the bugs that are their main diet, bats can produce an accurate representation of ...

The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI. Figure 2: Innervation pattern of bat wing muscles. The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI. Figure 3: ...

The high-pitched calls produced by insect-feeding bats owe their origins to a set of superfast muscles in the bat's larynx, making this species the first mammal known to sport such superfast muscles, ...

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Bats are known for their high-frequency calls, which they use to echolocate and catch prey, but they also let out much lower frequency calls for bat-to-bat communication. The structure in a bat’s ...

Bats appear to use a network of hair-thin muscles in their wing skin to control the stiffness and shape of their wings as they fly, according to a new study. The finding provides new insight about the ...

Hair-thin muscles embedded in the skin of their wings allow bats like this Jamaican fruit bat to change the stiffness and curvature of their wings at different points of the wing stroke. That ...