J.J., the only finisher in the black, played his collegiate golf at San Diego State. This means that three of the last six ...

Scientists at Brown University in Rhode Island are releasing the winged mammals, such as this Egyptian fruit bat, into a laboratory wind tunnel to study flight mechanics. By James Gorman.

Britain's Chester Zoo has welcomed two female bat-eared foxes. The sibling foxes, named Maasai and Malindi, arrived from a zoo in Paris and have been busy exploring their new home in the Heart of ...

Bats are important animals that help maintain ecosystem balance and human well-being. They play key roles like pollinating plants, dispersing seeds, and controlling insect populations. But of late ...

Before being released, a fruit bat gets a sip of nourishment after veterinarians took a blood sample. As part of the PREDICT project, sponsored by the U.S. Agency for International Development ...

There’s a huge variety of them, from tiny fruit-eating bats that fit into the palm of your hand to giant carnivores, or meat-eaters, with nearly two-metre wingspans. Neil That’s right.

The simple bat detector uses frequency division to lower the bat’s chirping to a frequency we can hear. For example, if a bat is calling at 91kHz the system will divide it by 16 and put out 5.7kHz.

2. Fruit bats eat various fruits and nectar of flowers. 3. They usually measure about 2.5 to 10 inches. 4. Fruit bats have wingspans that measure as long as 5.5 feet: 5. Fruit bats risk endangerment ...

To test whether post-mating selection processes also favored conspecific males, researchers observed matings between female fruit flies and males of the same species or a closely related species ...

New species discovered! Read the latest research news on newly discovered frogs, cave crickets, monkeys and more.

28 books by local authors to read this summer. Here’s a roundup of summer reads for kids and adults to accompany your beach trips, holiday getaways and culinary adventures.