Research teams studying bats and birds gather in Panama’s Soberanía National Park to celebrate the launch of a long-term census of bats designed to complement the bird census, which will celebrate its ...

For the past 25 years, Professor of Engineering and Biology Sharon Swartz and Professor of Engineering Kenneth Breuer ’82 P’14 P’16 have been fascinated by animal flight. The two professors have ...

As wind power grows around the world, so does the threat the turbines pose to wildlife. From simple fixes to high-tech solutions, new approaches can help. By Katarina Zimmer / Knowable Magazine ...

To exploit a rich food resource that remains largely inaccessible to most predators, Europe’s largest bat captures, kills, and consumes nocturnally migrating birds in flight high above the ground, ...

Most library-goers don’t get to enjoy a bit of nature while pursuing books; not so for Portugal’s Joanine Library. A colony of bats has called the library home since the 18th century. The fascinating ...

Wing-beat-frequency data for a variety of flying animals versus the square-root of the animal mass divided by the wing/fin area. A single universal equation can closely approximate the frequency of ...