Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The painting, by Jan Brueghel the Elder, with three bats highlighted. (Romero-Vidal et al., PNAS, 2026) For more than 400 years, ...

In a discovery that’s changing how scientists view nocturnal predators, researchers have captured the first direct evidence of a bat hunting and eating a bird midflight. According to a new study ...

After nearly 25 years of research, the mystery has finally been solved: Europe's largest bat doesn't just eat small birds—it hunts and captures them more than a kilometer above the ground. And it eats ...

There are three species of bats that eat birds. We know that because we have found feathers and other avian remains in their feces. What we didn’t know was how exactly they hunt birds, which are quite ...

For the nearly three-year-old female bat soaring into the Spanish sky in March 2023, it was just another night of striving to feed itself. But the bat’s overnight exploits were about to become the ...

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Biologists knew that some bats ate birds because they found feathers and bones in bat poop. But no one had actually seen how bats did it. They just assumed that it would’ve been a sight to behold ...

It’s been a wild week for bat news. First, we learned that some European giant bats eat birds in mid-air, but not before brutally tearing their wings off. Then, we learned that several North American ...

In this Q&A, UNC Charlotte bat researcher Laurel Yohe discusses what makes these animals so fascinating, clears up common ...

After nearly 25 years of research, the mystery has finally been solved: Europe’s largest bat doesn’t just eat small birds – it hunts and captures them more than a kilometre above the ground. And it ...