“I shouted, and my heartbeat elevated,” he says. He knew he had found another bat-winged dinosaur. Hold your arm out to the side, palm facing forward. Imagine a bony rod extending downward ...

That bat-winged gliding turned out to be a dead end along the path to the evolution of flight, researchers say. “They are a failed experiment,” says Alexander Dececchi, a paleontologist at ...

For Bat Week this year ... (Stephen Greif) Right: Spix’s disk-winged bats sleep with their heads facing up — unlike most bats — inside curled leaves. (Alan Wolf) Bats’ ability to fly ...

FILE PHOTO: A Jurassic Period dinosaur Ambopteryx longibrachium, which flew with bat-like membranous wings, is shown in this image of a 3-D reconstruction, released from Institute of Vertebrate ...

The body composition of two, tiny, bat-like dinosaurs made them more likely ... as well as try various wing shapes and muscle configuration. Based on their findings, they conclude that neither ...

Life reconstruction of the bizarre membranous-winged Ambopteryx longibrachium ... China reveals an enigmatic family of dinosaurs with bat-like wings. The first of these dinosaurs, given the ...

A team of scientists has just built the first robot that looks and flies like a bat. They named it, of course, Bat Bot. Bat Bot is nothing short of an engineering marvel. It weighs in at only 3.3 ...