As dusk settles and the last birds vanish into trees, something else begins to stir. Dark shapes dart and zigzag across the ...

A University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign study showed that rare and endangered Florida bonneted bats will colonize safer ...

Michael Pollan explores theories of consciousness in animals, plants and machines, examining the “hard problem” of subjective experience in his new book “A World Appears”.

In 1974, philosopher Thomas Nagel posed a deceptively simple question: “what is it like to be a bat?”. His point wasn’t ...

Finding bats in the attic or under roof tiles is no homeowner's idea of fun. But Florida's endangered bonneted bats have few natural ...

Meet the European hedgehog ( Erinaceus europaeus ), small nocturnal insectivores that turn into a spiny ball of death when they feel threatened. Unfortunately, the mammals are rapidly declining.

From whale songs to lion roars, animals have evolved to stretch their voices across distances so that friends—and sometimes foes—can hear them. Each sound is coded with messages like "Come here!" ...

Watch half a million bats erupt into the evening sky at Gainesville’s famous bat houses, one of Florida’s most unforgettable wildlife spectacles.

When the sun disappears, and the world slowly becomes quiet, another world quietly wakes up. While humans switch off lights ...

Nocturnal animals are creatures that become active after sunset, using specialised abilities to survive in darkness. From ...

But scientists say there are practical and ethical challenges to overcome before the strategy could be deployed in real-world settings.

You’ll discover how their ears work, why their hearing is so extraordinary, and how these abilities help them survive in their environments. Bats use their hearing and a process called echolocation ...