Most of us associate echolocation with bats. These amazing creatures are able to chirp at frequencies beyond the limit of our hearing, and they use the reflected sound to map the world around them. It ...

It turns out that the shape of the skull in bat species is related to the specific frequencies of sonar that they produce. This in turn is often influenced by the way in which they emit sound for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A pod of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) swimming at the Las Cuevitas dive site in the Revillagigedo Archipelago. We ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A team of researchers in the UK says it’s trained a cohort of people to use echolocation. The researchers included in their study ...

For years, a small number of people who are blind have used echolocation, by making a clicking sound with their mouths and listening for the reflection of the sound to judge their surroundings. Now, ...

Scientists have figured out why bats crash into buildings: smooth, vertical surfaces like window panes throw off their navigation systems, basically keeping them from “seeing” those obstacles. The ...

Picture a dolphin diving toward the seafloor with something odd on its nose. It is not a shell or a fish. It is a sea sponge.

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Dolphins and other toothed whales–or Odontocetes–use their ...

A private dolphin research organization based in Miami sparked a minor sensation last month when it released a controversial image of an underwater diver that was reportedly created using data ...

Ruben Graham-Morris, a blind eight-year-old boy, has mastered echolocation to get around on his own. Ruben was born with Leber's congenital amaurosis, a genetic disease that left him blind from birth.