From Our Blogs: Eek Squad How Bats Find Their Way Through The Clutter Turns out bat sonar is simpler than scientists thought. By Rebecca Boyle posted Oct 23rd, 2015 Hunting bats effortlessly avoid trees, power lines, and each other, appearing insanely unhinged but in fact behaving very carefully. From Our Blogs: Eek Squad How Zombie Spiders Are Enslaved As Wasp Nursery Builders By Rebecca Boyle posted Aug 4th, 2015 Parasitic wasps force spiders to build special nursery cocoons for the wasps' young. From Our Blogs: Eek Squad Finding Out How Boa Constrictors Kill (It's Not How You Think) By Rebecca Boyle posted Jul 27th, 2015 They constrict blood flow, not oxygen. From Our Blogs: Eek Squad How Ancient Spiders Weaponized An Arachnid Version of Insulin By Rebecca Boyle posted Jun 12th, 2015 Aiming to build better drugs, scientists unravel a toxin's past. From Our Blogs: Eek Squad How A Tiny Bat Might Interrupt A Massive Oil Pipeline By Rebecca Boyle posted Feb 18th, 2015 Not the pipeline you're thinking of — at least not yet. From Our Blogs: Eek Squad Students Engineer Help For Bats Fighting White Nose Syndrome By Rebecca Boyle posted Feb 12th, 2015 A student engineering competition yields a new tool bat biologists can take to the field. From Our Blogs: Eek Squad Artificial Spider Silk Might Be Better, and Easier, Than Milking Spiders By Rebecca Boyle posted Feb 10th, 2015 Spider silk is valuable stuff, but it's hard to harvest. Synthetic versions based on spider-designed proteins offer a new approach. From Our Blogs: Eek Squad 5 Ground Animals That Are Cooler Than Groundhogs By Rebecca Boyle posted Feb 2nd, 2015 Happy Micrathena Spider Day! From Our Blogs: Eek Squad Humans, Not Climate Change, Caused Caribbean Bat Extinctions By Rebecca Boyle posted Jan 28th, 2015 A new study challenges earlier theories of how some species of Caribbean bats died out. From Our Blogs: Eek Squad Bats Listen For Others' Snacking Sounds to Help Them Find Food By Rebecca Boyle posted Jan 22nd, 2015 Bats that hunt together feast together. Pages1 2 3 4 5 6 Next Last
