Birds are the undisputed champions of epic travel—but they are not the only long-haul fliers. A handful of bats are known to travel thousands of kilometers in continental migrations across North ...

The study utilized an ultra-lightweight sensor—just 5% of the weight of the bat's body mass—developed by engineers at MPI-AB.

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Ultra-lightweight, intelligent sensors attached to bats uncovered a strategy used by the tiny mammals for travel: they surf the warm fronts of storms to fly further with less energy. Birds are the ...

A new study in the journal Science explains how certain bats may use warm storm fronts to aid in cross-continental migration. Bats and Storm Surfing Bat migration is notoriously difficult to study ...