Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Bats use erectile tissue to drink. But don't worry — the tissue is on their tongues. Nectar-eating bats lap up the sweet liquid by ...

The authors of the study, published today (May 6) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, claim that the physiological mechanism driving this rapid transformation of the tongue tip could ...

A team of explorers for the National Geographic Channel has captured never-before-seen footage of the tube-lipped nectar bat, a peculiar species discovered in 2005 in the cloud forests of Ecuador. The ...

The Pallas' long-tongued bat has a neat trick at the tip of its tongue — tiny hairlike structures that fill with blood and stand straight out.... This Bat Knows How To Drink Imagine it's a hot day, ...

For a scary animal, this guy is pretty cute! To some people, bats are creepy or frightening creatures. Maybe it's their membranous wings or their nocturnal schedule that makes them so controversial, ...

These endearing photos of bats are a far cry from how these animals are often perceived – linked to fictional evildoers, or blamed for real-life diseases, most recently covid-19, due to the viruses ...

Eat your heart out, Gene Simmons. The tongue of the Ecuadorian nectar bat Anoura fistulata unfurls to 8.5 centimeters--twice as long as related bats' tongues and half again as long as the animal ...

Researchers at the UC Davis Center for Neuroscience mapped the brain regions controlling movements in Egyptian fruit bats. Large regions of motor cortex are dedicated to the tongue, which makes sonar ...