Bats are the only mammals capable of powered flight and have correspondingly specialized body plans, particularly in their limb morphology. In new research published in PeerJ Life & Environment, ...

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 ...

Phylogenies, fossils and functional genes : the evolution of echolocation in bats / Emma C. Teeling, Serena Dool and Mark Springer -- Systematics and paleobiogeography of early bats / Thierry Smith ..

Bats may have lived in caves and used soundwaves to navigate much earlier than first thought. Of all the mammals, bats have one of the poorest fossil records, with palaeontologists estimating that ...