What looked like rain showers popping up on radar Wednesday evening turned out to be something much more unusual — and pretty ...

Every day, our brain takes countless fleeting experiences—from walks on the beach to presentations at work—and transforms them into long-term memories. How exactly this works remains a mystery, but ...

Saturday and Sunday evening just north of San Antonio at Bracken Cave one of nature's small wonders took flight as millions of mother bats who recently gave birth took the air for the first time with ...

Any meteorologists casually monitoring the National Weather Service's Houston radar might have been shocked to see a green cloud-shaped image suddenly swell out of nothing on the screen one evening in ...

If you want to know how to beat some of the world's most virulent diseases, ask a bat. The winged night-flyers are one of the most prominent mammal groups to have coevolved with infections like Ebola ...

Small bats are bad at converting energy into muscle power. Surprisingly, a new study led by Lund University in Sweden reveals that this ability increases the faster they fly. Small bats are bad at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For this study, researchers set up thermal and infrared cameras to keep tabs on two bat hibernation sites in the towns of Segeberg ...

A new study shows how the brains of Egyptian fruit bats are highly specialized for echolocation and flight, with motor areas of the cerebral cortex that are dedicated to sonar production and wing ...