Bat Swarms Tracked by Weather Radar Reveal Earlier Migration as Planet Warms

Stay informed about the latest climate, energy and environmental justice news. for the ICN newsletter. When millions of migrating bats fly toward their breeding cave near San Antonio, Texas, each spring, the shadowy, swirling swarm is so dense, it shows up on weather radar.

How a bat's brain navigates

Most of what we know about how the hippocampus, a region of the brain associated with memory formation and spatial representations, comes from research done on rodents. Rat brains have taught us a lot, but researchers in ...

I Want to Drink Your Blood: Vampire Bat's Genetic Secrets Revealed

If you want to know how vampire bats can survive on a diet that - as everyone knows - consists exclusively of blood, the answer is simple. It's in their genes.