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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The image of the bat with blood and feathers around its mouth perfectly illustrates the story now published in Science by an ...

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 ...

To exploit a rich food resource that remains largely inaccessible to most predators, Europe’s largest bat captures, kills, and consumes nocturnally migrating birds in flight high above the ground, ...

A rare kind of European bat regularly feasts on birds, surprised biologists have discovered. And they suspect that the large bats are capable of hunting down the birds in flight, something no ...

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 ...