Tiny muscles help bats fine-tune flight, stiffen wing skin - Science Daily May 25, 2014

Fine-tuning flight. Hair-thin muscles embedded in the skin of their wings allow bats like this Jamaican fruit bat to change the stiffness and curvature of their wings at different points of the wing stroke. That observation could help improve design of mechanical flight surfaces.

Credit: Swartz-Breuer lab/Brown University

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