They are fast and dangerous but these birds of prey are also supremely weird. Here's 12 of the oddest hunters of the sky ...
But New Zealand is home to an amazing version of glow worms – the Arachnocampa luminosa – and they are responsible for one of the most stunning natural spectacles in the world. The common glow worm, ...
Common big-eared bat (Micronycteris microtis) approaching a katydid resting on a leaf. Credit: Inga Geipel, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Co-author Inga Geipel, a research associate at STRI, ...
Fast-moving animals process visual information at higher speeds, reshaping how they hunt, escape predators, and experience time.
Scientists built a robot to help explain how a tropical bat spots insects perched on leaves using echolocation, a highly sophisticated behavior that requires precise, split-second decision making on ...
Common big-eared bat (Micronycteris microtis) eating a freshly-caught dragonfly. Co-author Inga Geipel, a research associate at STRI, previously suggested that M. microtis detects silent prey by ...