The dream of flying has always fascinated humanity. In evolutionary history, the ability to fly has emerged independently ...

They observed in both bats and birds that the shape of the bones within a species' wing (handwing, radius, humerus), or within a species' leg (femur and tibia) are correlated—meaning that within ...

Bat wings look leathery and floppy, but they're full of hair-thin muscles. Like much of bat-flight research, this is cool because it has implications for micro-air vehicles.

BOSTON — Wings are for swimming. Boxing. Catching a falling baby. So far, bat biologist Thomas Kunz of Boston University and his colleagues have come up with 52 things bats do with their wings ...

A bat’s wing, you see, is highly manipulable compared to a bird’s. Much of the muscle in a bat’s wing isn’t actually attached to bone, so by contracting or relaxing its muscles, ...

Receptors in the wing membrane sense aerodynamic conditions. The air activated neurons in the primary somatosensory cortex — part of the brain that is triggered by the sense of touch.

Nothing can disturb a relaxing night at home, or a restful sleep for that matter, than the sudden sounds of fluttering wings. Not the butterfly kind, we’re talking about bat wings. And once y… ...

That style of wing arose earlier in pterosaurs (although there's evidence that they also might have been covered in feathers) and was later honed in mammals like bats.But in the case of Ambopteryx ...

The bat bot can fly nearly 100 feet in a straight line, flapping its wings to create lift and propulsion. It weighs less than a quarter of a pound and has a wingspan of about a foot and a half.

Engineers at Caltech and the UIUC have developed the Bat Bot, a robotic bat with soft, flappable wings that could not only make for a safer alternative to keeping drones aloft with spinning blades ...

A bat-like dinosaur has been unearthed in China that had wings made of skin rather than feathers, showing there may have been different ways of flying before the emergence of birds.