Using sound to hunt for food is a pretty ingenious adaptation for bats flying at night. But it doesn’t work if another bat is messing with you. Scientists have discovered that a species of bats can ...

Scientists have known for years that bats navigate by sonar. Like destroyers hunting down a submarine, they send out pulses of sound and steer by the echoes that bounce back from obstacles or prey. In ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - All's fair in love and war - and also in mid-air bug hunting, if you're a bat. Scientists studying a common species of these flying mammals found that the bats, while competing ...

Tiger beetles generate "anti bat-sonar" to prevent echolocating bats from eating them, scientists say. An experiment suggests the beetles mimic sounds created by poisonous insects that bats avoid.

Modern bomber-plane crews know just what to do when their receivers pick up the pings of an enemy radar. They transmit pings of their own designed to confuse an oncoming fighter or trick an attacking ...