{
  "id": 18527629,
  "title": "These Moths Use Their Genitals to Fend Off Bats—but Not in the Way You Think. They Emit Ultrasound to Scramble the Predators' Sonar",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/06/these-moths-use-their-genitals-to-fend-off-bats-but-not-in-the-way",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-11-06T16:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Smithsonian",
    "slug": "smithsonian",
    "url": "https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/these-moths-use-their-genitals-to-fend-off-bats-but-not-in-the-way-you-think-they-emit-ultrasound-to-scramble-the-predators-sonar-180989819/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "New research suggests male hawkmoths have three distinct anti-bat, ultrasound-producing systems. These may have evolved independently up to seven times between 5 million and 30 million years ago",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}