Europe’s biggest bat is capable of an impressively athletic feat: snatching birds out of the air and eating them, midflight — ...

Last fall, scientists reported the first known recordings of greater noctule bats hunting and feasting on songbirds during ...

For more than 400 years, an oil painting titled Air by Flemish master Jan Brueghel the Elder has been hiding a scientific ...

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 ...

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New research has found that, unlike birds, the evolution of bats' wings and legs is tightly coupled, which may have prevented them from filling as many ecological niches as birds. New Cornell ...

At first glance, bats and birds appear remarkably similar. Both dominate the skies, possess wings, and have evolved the ability to fly with extraordinary agility. Yet beneath these superficial ...

Renaissance painter Jan Brueghel the Elder painted a bat eating a bird — 400 years before scientists would document the ...

Vampire bats are a Halloween staple, and now they’ve got company. Another bat species snatches birds out of the air for a gruesome midnight feast. For years, scientists have tried to understand how ...

A long-awaited federal report on the environmental impact of wind power suggests birds have far more to fear from high buildings, power lines and cats than they do from the swirling blades of wind ...