The free-tails make the Phoenix bat cave their summer home, from which they emerge dramatically each night to eat. The cave, officially known as the Arizona Canal Diversion Channel, was ...

When they emerge at night in large numbers, bats avoid colliding with each other by adjusting both their flight patterns and ...

A recent study conducted in Israel’s Hula Valley reveals how bats manage to avoid collisions while exiting caves in large groups. Despite the expected interference from their echolocation calls ...

The new leech species has three jaws, five pairs of eyes aligned in a U-shape, a disc-shaped “caudal sucker” for attachment, ...

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. When a colony of bats leaves their cave and takes to the skies at night to hunt, they often do so in such big groups that they ...

Researchers believe the bats played a role in the distribution of the new cave-dwelling species, according to the study. Li, T. et al. (2025.) In a dark, damp cave in southeastern China ...