OK. We have the news of New Zealand's Bird of the Year. And the Bird of the Year is not a bird. LAURA KEOWN: The winner of Bird of the Year was our pekapeka-tou-roa, or long-tailed bat. INSKEEP: Laura ...

Bats are incredibly diverse animals: They can climb onto other animals to drink their blood, pluck insects from leaves or hover to drink nectar from tropical flowers, all of which require distinctive ...

The image of the bat with blood and feathers around its mouth perfectly illustrates the story now published in Science by an international research team. Carlos Ibáñez at the Doñana Biological Station ...

After decades of mystery, scientists have finally proven that Europe’s largest bat, the greater noctule, hunts and eats small songbirds mid-air—more than a kilometer above ground. Using tiny ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: James Artaius Nothing is more pleasing than watching nature do its thing, with research ...

Bats are abundant and effective seed dispersers inside the forest, but what happens when a forest is fragmented and transformed into pasture? The landscape at Los Tuxtlas, Mexico, originally ...

Given how many species of birds of prey hunt bats, I’m not sure this race is the best one to be partisan about! I think flying mammals would also lose out to birds in a total biomass race. Maybe ...

At least some of that concern is justified. In the mid-1980s, people reported seeing piles of dead raptors at Altamont Pass Wind Resource Area near San Francisco, one of the nation’s first wind farms.