Pipistrelle bats have a magnetic compass and calibrate it at sunset, according to a new study. An international team of researchers has used behavioral experiments to show that two different ...

Virginia Tech researchers have demonstrated that migratory birds calibrate their magnetic compass based on polarized light patterns at sunset and sunrise -- solving a 30-year puzzle. Songbirds use ...

“Blind as a bat” goes the saying – but that’s a myth. Small bats have perfectly good eyesight for their size, but they can also call upon “extra senses” which humans can only achieve with technology.

As any child could tell you, bats see with their ears. Björn Siemers from the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Seewiesen and Richard Holland from the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in ...

The Panama Canal Authority issued an Advisory reminding masters that, if they elect to calibrate their magnetic compasses while in Panama Canal Waters, they must sign the Authority boarding officer’s ...

The soprano pipistrelle (Pipistrellus pygmaeus) weighs no more than a quarter dollar. Tens of thousands of individuals fly south along the Baltic coast of Latvia in August and September. The soprano ...