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

Roosting upside down also protects bats from some of their potential predators, Pavuk said. Hanging from hard-to-reach ...

A new study from Tel Aviv University reveals that the greater mouse-tailed bat (Rhinopoma microphyllum) uses its long tail as ...

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

Bats do not fatally crash into each other every night, even in colonies of hundreds of thousands of them, squeezing out of caves to forage. Bats perceive their world mostly through echolocation.

Sinospelaeobdella jiangxiensis, or the jiangxiensis land leech, “lives on the roofs and sidewalls of wet karstic caves close to the bat populations coexisting in the same area,” researchers said.

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 ...